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Setting up your first AI evaluation

45 min
Feb 12, 2026 7:30 AM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

Identify your AI feature's specific evaluation metrics

Move beyond generic metrics to specifics that measure the ways your AI feature fails for your specific use case

How to choose between deterministic and LLM-based evaluation

Understand when to use zero-cost deterministic checks vs. AI-as-judge, and why you should start with deterministic first

Build your first automated evaluation

Set up practical deterministic checks: format validation, schema checks, length limits, and value ranges

Why this topic matters

Generic metrics like "helpfulness" or "hallucination" won't tell you if your AI feature solves real user problems. A product recommendation AI that's "helpful" but recommends the wrong products is useless. Having strong evaluations in place is key to building impactful AI features that work with a certain level of accuracy. We will start from the most simple evaluations you can do, building up to

You'll learn from

Madalina Turlea

Madalina Turlea

Co-founder @Lovelaice, 10+ years in Product

Catalina Turlea

Catalina Turlea

Founder @Lovelaice

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