Agent evals often measure completion, not correctness, and teams still ship them
Intelligent_Catch330 · reddit · 2026-07-27
The author argues that most agent evals measure whether a workflow finished, not whether the output was actually correct.
- A trace can look green even when the agent completed every step and still produced the wrong result.
- They ask what people use as the bar for shipping agents to real traffic: a numeric threshold, manual spot checks, or senior approval.
- They also ask how teams detect regressions after a model or prompt change, and who owns the launch decision in practice.
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