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0:00 I've taught over 4,000 people from companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta on how to test AI products. And here are the four most common mistakes I see. Number one, you're using off-the-shelf metrics like helpfulness score, coherence score, hallucination score. These are just someone else's generic prompt hidden behind five layers of abstraction. They measure abstract qualities that usually have nothing to do with your product. And good scores on these don't mean your system works. Number two, a really popular technique to test AI products is to use an LLM as a judge. But most people don't measure if the LLM as a judge agrees with a human. If it only matches human labels 60% of the time, it's useless. [music] So, you have to make sure you measure your judge. Number three, if you have a rack system, you need to separate retrieval from generation. If retrieval is broken, no amount of prompt engineering is going to fix the generation bit. And four, you need to audit your whole system end-to-end. I built skills that walk your coding agent through each of these mistakes and many more. They work with Claude code, Codex, or whatever coding agent you want to use. They come from a year of watching thousands of people make these exact mistakes and many more. I left a link to a blog post with the skills and how to use them in the comments.

Summary

The speaker shares insights from teaching over 4,000 individuals in major tech companies about common pitfalls in testing AI products. They highlight four primary mistakes that can undermine the effectiveness of AI evaluations.

- Avoid using generic off-the-shelf metrics, as they often do not relate to your specific product's performance.
- Ensure that any LLM used as a judge aligns closely with human evaluations; a low agreement rate renders it ineffective.
- In systems with both retrieval and generation components, it's crucial to address retrieval issues separately, as they can compromise the entire output.
- Conduct comprehensive end-to-end audits of your AI systems to identify and rectify potential flaws.
- The speaker has developed skills to help navigate these common mistakes, applicable across various coding agents.
- A blog post with further details and resources is available in the comments.
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