Field Notes · Page 2
A demo tells you an agent can do a task once. Production asks whether it can do the task a thousand times unattended without a costly mistak…
Use a public benchmark to survey the field and shortlist models. Use a private eval to decide what you ship. A benchmark is a shared public…
Contamination-free LLM evaluation means testing a model on data it could not have seen during training. If your evaluation set overlaps with…
You can run a rigorous LLM evaluation without a single row of production data leaving your network. That is what in-VPC LLM evaluation means…
Build in-house for your development loop. Buy eval as a service for independent, contamination-free, regulator-acceptable validation. Most t…
Run every vendor through one identical exam built from your own data, score it blind, and report results with error bars. That is the whole…
Independent model validation for banks means a party outside the model's development team confirms that an LLM or agent does what it claims,…
You do not need four evaluations to satisfy four frameworks. You need one rigorous evaluation, run once, whose artifacts you map to SR 11-7,…
EU AI Act model evaluation requirements come down to one thing you can act on: if your AI system falls in a high-risk category, you have to…
RBI FREE-AI compliance is not a certificate you buy. It is evidence you produce. For an Indian bank deploying LLMs or agents, the practical…
If you run AI in more than one jurisdiction, you do not need a separate evaluation for each regime. You need one independent, contamination-…
UK AI model validation means showing, with evidence someone outside your build team can check, that your LLMs and agents do what you claim o…