Sentry CTO: most of my CI assertions are deterministic, LLM rubrics kept minimal

zeeg · x · 2026-09-10

Sentry co-founder/CTO David Cramer shares how he uses LLMs in CI: most assertions are deterministic, rubrics are kept very minimal, and only a few non-deterministic asserts run where an agent is actually needed. A pragmatic take on agent eval design: shrink LLM-judged checks to the bare minimum and keep the rest deterministic.

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