Airbnb Details Eval-Driven Development: Uncalibrated LLM Judges Are Worse Than None
DynamicWebPaige · x · 2026-08-13
Airbnb shared practices on Eval-Driven Development (EDD), noting that TDD walked so EDD could run. The core takeaway is that an uncalibrated virtual judge is worse than no judge at all.
The #1 least glamorous lesson is to read your data—all of it—because no framework saves you from this. The evaluation pipeline evolves as: programmatic checks → LLM-as-judge → humans. This approach also extends cleanly to multimodal evals using Gemma and Gemini.
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