Do Automated Evals Actually Work?
Hamel Husain · rss · 2026-07-11
The author shared a piece titled Do Automated Evals Work?, which compares 100 human-annotated traces against an automated evaluation system to see if automated assessments are truly reliable.
While the post itself is brief, it clearly defines the research question: using human annotations as a ground truth to test how well automated evals perform on real traces.
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