Beyond Vibes: Evaluating Generative and Agentic AI So You Can Ship Systems You Trust: The Practitioner’s Playbook

Stop guessing whether your AI actually works.Beyond Vibes is a practical guide to evaluating generative and agentic AI systems before they reach production.If you build with LLMs, RAG, agents, tool use, graders, or multi-step AI workflows, intuition is not enough. This book shows you how to turn subjective quality into measurable, repeatable engineering practice.You will learn how to design eval datasets, build human and LLM graders, measure reliability with statistical rigor, evaluate agent trajectories, red-team failure modes, and monitor AI systems in production.Written for AI engineers, technical founders, product leaders, and applied AI teams,Beyond Vibes gives you the evaluation playbook needed to ship AI systems with confidence.Part of The AI Engineer's Library. Read more