A practical guide to evaluating LLM systems in production

Admin·Feb 10, 2026·11 min read

Shipping an LLM system without an evaluation harness is like shipping a backend without tests — possible, briefly, before the pain arrives.

This post covers the full eval stack we deploy with every client engagement: offline regression suites, online quality monitoring, cost and latency SLOs, and the feedback pipelines that turn user signal into training data.

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