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AI Evaluation

How you know an AI system actually works — LLM-as-judge, agent evals, and metrics like token-F1 — the half of AI engineering that separates demos from production.

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Handbooks 4

Roadmaps 3

System Designs 1

AI System Designs 7

AI System Design

Design LLM Eval & Observability

Build an LLM evaluation and observability pipeline. See how offline evals and online observability form two loops, how tracing every call is the foundation, how versioned golden datasets become your real benchmark, how programmatic/LLM-judge/human scorers combine, how a CI regression gate blocks regressions, how production monitoring catches drift, how failures feed back as fixtures — and why an unvalidated LLM judge silently corrupts every metric — through an interactive diagram.

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AI System Design

Design a Model Registry (MLOps)

Build the platform that versions, evaluates, promotes and can instantly roll back trained ML models — the governance layer between "a model finished training" and "a model is safely serving production traffic." See why an artifact alone is meaningless without lineage, staged promotion through gated environments, automated evaluation gates that fail closed, shadow/canary deployment because offline metrics aren't sufficient, instant rollback via immutable versioning, and production drift monitoring.

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AI System Design

Design a Data Labeling Platform

Build a human annotation platform like Scale AI or Labelbox — sourcing labels from people, not generating them programmatically. See why a single annotator's answer can't be trusted as ground truth, multi-annotator consensus, secretly-mixed gold-standard items that measure labeler accuracy in real time, skill-based task routing, active learning to prioritize which unlabeled examples matter most, and aligning labeler pay with measured quality.

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AI System Design

Design a Prompt Management & A/B Testing Platform

Build the platform that versions, evaluates, and safely A/B tests prompts in a production LLM application — a much faster-moving artifact than model weights, often edited by non-engineers. See why hardcoded prompts force a full deploy for every tweak, externalizing prompts as versioned config, an offline eval gate before rollout, live A/B testing, guardrail metrics that must not regress, routine one-click rollback, and a review gate suited to non-engineer editors.

LLMEvals
AI System Design

Design an AI Ad Creative Platform

Build a platform that generates ad creative at scale for advertisers, built on top of generative models rather than serving them directly. See why one hand-designed creative can't be tested at scale, programmatic variant generation, a brand-safety and ad-policy compliance gate that fails closed, rights and licensing tracking, dynamic multi-armed-bandit budget allocation, a performance feedback loop, and tiered generation cost control.

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AI System Design

Design a Support Resolution Agent

Build an AI agent that triages, resolves, and escalates customer support tickets end-to-end. See why answering from general knowledge alone is dangerous when the real answer depends on account-specific state, grounding responses in real account/order data, confidence-based escalation instead of guessing, tiered auto/assisted/escalate resolution, seamless handoff context, outcome-based quality tracking, tone-aware de-escalation, and identity verification against social engineering.

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AI System Design

Design a CI Test-Generation Agent

Build an agent that automatically generates tests for new and changed code in a CI pipeline. See why manual tests leave coverage gaps, coverage-gap analysis, generating tests against the real code, mutation testing to verify a test is actually meaningful, flaky-test detection before it poisons CI signal, why a human review gate is still required, and running expensive validation in a background lane.

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Coding Challenges 1

Labs 1

Interactive Tools 2

About AI evaluation

Shipping an AI feature is easy; knowing whether it's actually good is the hard part — and the part that separates demos from production. Unlike normal code, LLM output has no compiler and no exact-match "correct", so you need a real measurement discipline: golden datasets, scoring methods, and gates that catch a regression before your users do.

This topic covers the vocabulary and the machinery — offline vs online evals, LLM-as-a-judge and its biases, concrete metrics like token-level F1, and evaluating multi-step agents rather than single calls. The recurring lesson: a metric you haven't validated against human judgement can silently mislead you, so you calibrate the judge before you trust the number.

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