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7/20/2026

Building Production-Grade LLM Evaluation Pipelines: From Vibes to Metrics
Short summary
A practical guide to replacing manual 'vibes-based' LLM testing with automated evaluation pipelines that catch 92% of hallucinations pre-deployment. Covers building a judge ensemble (faithfulness, instruction-following, JSON schema, safety, domain expert), golden dataset management, and CI/CD integration to block quality regressions. Includes Python code for the evaluation harness, LLM judge implementations, and threshold configuration tables.
- •Automated judge ensemble (faithfulness, instruction-following, safety, domain expert) replaces manual review
- •Golden datasets must be versioned, stratified, and integrated into CI/CD to block degrading merges
- •RAGAS covers basics but production needs domain-specific judges with configurable thresholds
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