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A multi-agent system beats your simple RAG pipeline by 15% on the benchmark. Do you ship it?

The most role-defining judgment call in Applied AI: a shiny benchmark number against the operational price of a system nobody can debug at 2am. Most candidates ship on the number and lose the loop there. Here is the answer that passes.

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The most role-defining judgment call in Applied AI: a shiny benchmark number against the operational price of a system nobody can debug at 2am. Most candidates ship on the number and lose the loop there. Here is the answer that passes.

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These lessons teach the material this question tests, in order and from the beginning.

Agent Engineering·Evaluating agentsPremium14mThe measures worth keepingSix measures cover almost everything useful about an agent, and four of them need no judgement at all. This lesson is what each one tells you, which failure it points at, and the order to build them in.Agent Engineering·Evaluating agentsPremium13mThe one number a business will ask you forEvery measure so far is internal. This is the one that decides whether an agent stays funded, and it is a number many teams cannot produce when asked, because it counts the failures as well as the successes.
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