Topic
Evaluation
Measurement that survives contact with assurance. Evaluation as a control rather than a development convenience.
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Writing
- Evaluations are not testsA test tells you whether the code did what you wrote. An evaluation tells you whether the system is still good enough. Confusing the two produces suites that pass while the product gets worse.
- Retrieval is not a knowledge baseTeams ship retrieval as though it were search with better manners. It is a data product, and it fails in the ways data products fail — quietly, and mostly on freshness.