Hamel Husain: Private Evals Should Test Real Systems, 10-20 Cases Suffice
Hamel Husain argues that private evals should measure your real system rather than abstract proxy benchmarks, and that a small set of 10-20 cases examined atomically beats relying on aggregate scores or statistical significance.
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