No Evals, No Value: Devs Warn Agent Automation Is Useless Code Without Evaluation

AI educator Elvis Saravia shared a consensus from talks with agent startup founders: without evals, the loop of recursive self-improvement is just code with no clear value, making evaluation a prerequisite for meaningful agent automation.

2026-11-15 ~ 2026-11-16 · 2 related posts

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• Without evals, recursive agent self-improvement is just LOC with no value — omarsar0 · 2026-11-16