Evaluation begins after the demo

By UAF Editorial10 May 20261 min read

Benchmarks answer questions about a defined task. Deployment asks a larger question: what happens when the environment changes, the user is ambiguous, the tool fails and the cost of a wrong action is real?

Agent evaluation must therefore continue in operation. Teams need representative tasks, incident review, drift monitoring and tests of interruption. A high score can be useful evidence. It cannot substitute for observing the system where its authority actually matters.

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