Reading Path: I Don’t Know What to Test

“I’m building an AI product, but I haven’t figured out which failures to measure or what good performance looks like.”

  1. Source - A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products
  2. Video: Intro to Error Analysis With Just Spreadsheets, or read Error Analysis
  3. Error Discovery Skill Workflow (plus Shreya’s How to Automate AI Evals (Correctly))
  4. Template: Error Analysis Worksheet

Sampling and generating data: Trace Sampling Strategies · How Many Examples Do You Need · Synthetic Data

Reviewing and labeling: Evals with Sensitive Data · Diverse Query Evaluation · Reference Answers and Rubrics · Benevolent Dictator · Team Collaboration on Evals

Deciding what to test: LLM-as-Judge · Coding Agent Evaluation · When to Build an Automated Evaluator · Eval-Driven Development