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LLM evaluation

not yet earned

I can say with a number whether an LLM system is any good, defend the method that produced the number, and show where the measurement itself breaks down.

What this claim costs

  • 6 assessed items at tier 2 or above0 of 6 — 6 more to do, from 45 available
  • A public artifact built for this claim — eval-harness
  • A documented negative result — where this stops workingNothing recorded. A capability with no known failure boundary has not been explored.
  • Defended aloud, against questions you did not write2 available, none done
  • Recalled cold, a week later, without notes8 scheduled, none done

The proof

eval-harness

A replay-first harness with per-tag reporting and a baseline that fails CI on regression, run against a hand-built gold set including negatives.

What it has to contain

  • A gold set of 30+ cases with 6 or more genuine negatives
  • A harness run producing per-tag results, not a single number
  • A baseline the system had to beat, and the comparison with an interval
  • A regression suite wired to fail on a real regression

Where it stops working. Not established yet. Anyone can ship a demo; the boundary is the part that is worth reading, so this claim is not earned until it is written down.

Skills underneath

  • Eval design
  • Building eval datasets
  • LLM-as-judge and its pathologies
  • Statistical significance in evals
  • Calibrating automated scores to human judgement
  • Regression testing and CI for models
  • Tracing and production observability

45 assessed items across the specified courses evidence these, 0 done.