Reading Path: I Don’t Trust My Eval Scores

“We have evals, but the scores don’t match our judgment, or tests pass while users still hit problems.”

  1. Source - Using LLM-as-a-Judge → Critique Shadowing
  2. Source - Do Automated Evals Work: why automated review still needs human judgment and product context
  3. Nova Escola (production example) · Source - The Revenge of the Data Scientist (common mistakes)
  4. Run the Eval Audit Checklist

Metrics and judge decisions: Judge Validation · Judge Bias Correction · Combining Evals into a Single Metric · LLM-as-Judge · Binary Pass-Fail vs Likert Scales · Generic Metrics · Judge Context and Context Rot

Labels and eval data: Benevolent Dictator · How Many Examples Do You Need · Eval Maintenance and Cadence

Production and changes: CI Evals vs Production Monitoring · Trace Sampling Strategies · Guardrails vs Evaluators · Prompt Management · Maintaining Trust in Evals