Experts: AI Struggles with Bottom-Up Evals, Focus on Taste

petergyang · x · 2026-08-23

This post summarizes key insights from a discussion with AI eval experts Shreya and Hamel. Key takeaways: fundamentals of evals remain, but agents aid analysis; AI is bad at bottom-up evals (deriving criteria from samples); agents help distill feedback into rubrics rather than inventing it; and success depends on taste in eval design, not just using Claude to find errors.

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