Your Product Design Determines the Eval Data You Get
hugobowne · x · 2026-09-04
In Hugo Browne's thread on Hamel Husain's eval advice (point 7): your product design determines the eval data you get. Make the output easy to verify and the product starts collecting better signals — user feedback, labels, and errors that are easier to classify. Builds on point 6: a 52-page generated report is eval mush; decompose it into inspectable units like fact-finding and contradiction detection.
More from coding & agent
- Beat AI's samey frontends: import a design system before generating UI — dotey · 2026-10-21
- Trust slider over Clairic: 102 manual reviews catch 74 of 76 extraction errors — michellechen · 2026-10-21
- FreePi Bets on Ad-Supported Coding Help to Undercut $20/Month AI Coding Subscriptions — heyneighbor · 2026-10-21
- RedMonk: MCP and A2A Verify Publishers, Not Safety — Registries Become the Trust Layer — rseroter · 2026-10-21
- Agentic refactor: 600 PRs moved OpenClaw's web UI from Lit to Solid 2.0 in 2 weeks — steipete · 2026-10-21
- 19 Recorded Runs of 18 Agents Building a Lisp Interpreter, Released on Hugging Face — strickvl · 2026-10-21