The biggest trap in evals
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I notice that you’ve provided what appears to be a very brief excerpt from a tech podcast transcript rather than a full episode transcript. The text you’ve shared contains only a few sentences discussing LLM (Large Language Model) automation pitfalls and error analysis.
From this limited excerpt, I can identify these key points:
Main Topic: Limitations of LLM automation in error analysis and debugging processes
Key Takeaway: A critical warning against over-relying on LLMs for automated error analysis, as they often lack the necessary context to identify problematic code patterns or “bad product smells.”
Practical Advice: The speaker emphasizes the importance of manual review and human oversight rather than blindly automating analysis tasks with LLMs.
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đź’¬ Key Insights
"What we usually find when we try to ask an LLM to do this error analysis is it just says the trace looks good because it doesn't have the context needed to understand whether something might be a bad product smell or not."
"Number one pitfall right here is people are saying, let me automate this with an LLM."
"So I think in these cases, it's important to make sure you are manually doing this yourself."