LEARNING PATH · AI Engineering

Master LLM Evaluation

For engineers who need to prove their AI actually works.

Advanced ~2h 30m6 lessons7 steps

Shipping an LLM feature is easy; knowing whether it is good is the hard part. Build the vocabulary of evals, design a judge rubric, implement a metric by hand, then evaluate agents and a real production system.

  • Speak precisely about offline vs online evals, judges and rubrics
  • Design an LLM-as-judge rubric that resists gaming
  • Implement eval metrics like token-level F1 from scratch
  • Evaluate agents and conversational systems, not just single calls
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  1. HandbookNext up

    51 LLM Evals Interview Questions

    The vocabulary of evals — start here.

  2. ToolTool · optional

    LLM-as-Judge Rubric Builder

    Design an LLM-as-judge rubric interactively.

  3. Challenge

    Token-Level F1

    Implement a real metric by hand, with tests.

  4. Handbook

    The Agent Evaluations Handbook

    Evaluate agents — multi-step, tool-using.

  5. AI System Design

    Design an AI Agent System

    The agent system your evals must judge.

  6. AI System Design

    Design LLM Eval & Observability

    Build the eval + observability system around production.

  7. Handbook

    The Senior AI Engineer Interview Handbook

    Tie evals into senior-scope AI engineering.

Why evaluation is the hard part

Anyone can get an LLM feature to work once; proving it works reliably is what's hard — and what this path teaches. You'll build the vocabulary of evals (offline vs online, judges, rubrics), design an LLM-as-a-judge rubric that resists gaming, implement a real metric like token-level F1 by hand, then evaluate agents and a full production system rather than single calls.

The recurring lesson: a number you haven't validated against human judgement can mislead you with total confidence. This path is how you earn the right to trust your metrics — the skill that lets you actually improve an AI system instead of guessing.

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