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Prompt Evaluation & Evals-Driven Development
Moving beyond vibe-based testing into automated assertion suites and golden benchmark datasets.
Dr. Julian Sterling•Promptdex Research
Never deploy prompt changes to production based on how good 2 outputs looked in a web chat interface. Establishing an Evals pipeline with ground-truth assertions (exact match, semantic similarity, and LLM-as-a-judge scoring) is the prerequisite for engineering predictability.