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How to evaluate AI answers: compiler, tests, model comparison, your own eval set

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Essence

"The answer looks convincing" is not a quality criterion. Models write confidently and smoothly whether they're right or not. Quality has to be checked like any code: automatically where possible and against explicit criteria where not. And to compare models, prompts and skills on something other than gut feeling, you need your own small task set: an eval set.

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