Advanced · ~2.6 hr · 8 lessons
Forward Deployed Engineer: Evaluate and Capstone
Prove the service works: build a golden set, compare a baseline with strategies, record cost and failures, and write the evaluation report.
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What's inside
- 1Golden Set for AI Evaluation: Build One by HandFree to read
- 2Baseline vs Strategy Evaluation with a Golden SetEnroll to read
- 3AI Latency, Token Cost and Failure Capture per RunEnroll to read
- 4AI Evaluation Report Template: Method, Results, LimitsEnroll to read
- 5Capstone Brief: Requirements, Dataset and PhasesEnroll to read
- 6Capstone Architecture and API ContractEnroll to read
- 7Capstone Rubric (100 Points) and SubmissionEnroll to read
- 8Model-Graded Evaluation: Judge the Judge FirstEnroll to read
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