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Evaluating Agents With an LLM-as-Judge Harness (Without Kidding Yourself About It)
Key Takeaways
You can't unit-test a coach agent the way you test a pure function — the output is non-deterministic and "good" is a judgment call, not an assertion.
An LLM-as-judge harness lets you grade a whole test set automatically against a rubric, which is the only way solo-scale eval stays sustainable.
But the judge is itself a fallible model. If you don't design around its known biases — position, verbosity, self-preference, and quiet drift when the judge model updates — you buil...
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