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by cap11235 151 days ago
Evals have always existed, and not using them when building systems is relying on superstition.
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This is true with one caveat.

In most cases, e.g. with regular ML, evals are easy and not doing them results in inferior performance. With LLMs, especially frontier LLMs, this has flipped. Not doing them will likely give you alight performance and at the same time proper benchmarks are tricky to implement.