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Eval Driven Development

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Vadim Nicolai
Senior Software Engineer

Here's the counterintuitive premise: for any LLM application where errors have real consequences, you must build your evaluation harness before you write a single prompt. You don't prompt-engineer by vibes, tweaking until an output looks good. You start by defining what "good" means, instrumenting its measurement, and only then do you optimize. This is Eval-Driven Development. It's the only sane way to build reliable, high-stakes AI systems.