Parallelization and Cost Control in Large-Scale Eval Runs
Treating eval cost as an engineering problem, not just model pricing.
Tobias Ferrell
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8 stories in Eval Harness Architecture.
Treating eval cost as an engineering problem, not just model pricing.
Turn eval harnesses into production gates using the right framework and orchestration topology.
Rubrics decompose quality into verifiable criteria, replacing opaque scalar scores.
The harness, not the model, drives latency and throughput.
Blocking eval gates in CI/CD catch model failures before production.
Model stochasticity breaks the reproducibility assumption that powers engineering gates.
Catch model degradation before production with automated gold-set testing.
How miscalibrated LLM judges quietly shift baseline quality scores in production systems.