
AI Evaluations Crash Course in 50 Minutes (2025) | Hamel Husain
About this episode
Today, I want to share a new episode with Hamel Husain.
Hamel has trained 2,000+ PMs and engineers from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on how to run AI evals. In my new episode, he shares a free master class on how to build evals for a real AI agent in just 50 minutes using a simple spreadsheet. I learned a lot from Hamel and I think you will too.
Hamel and I talked about:
(00:00) What the most valuable part of evals is
(01:25) Live walkthrough: Analyzing 100 real production traces
(09:50) Creating the eval criteria using a simple spreadsheet
(24:44) Why binary pass/fail ratings beat 1-5 scores every time
(28:52) The agreement metric trap that fools most PMs
(30:08) True positive and negative rates explained
(36:00) How to set up continuous evals in production
Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/ai-evaluations-crash-course-in-50-minutes-hamel-husain
Where to find Hamel:
X: https://x.com/HamelHusain
Website: https://hamel.dev/
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