AI Evaluations Crash Course in 50 Minutes (2025) | Hamel Husain
AI Evaluations Crash Course in 50 Minutes (2025) | Hamel Husain  
Podcast: Behind the Craft
Published On: Sun Sep 28 2025
Description: Today, I want to share a new episode with Hamel Husain.Hamel has trained 2,000+ PMs and engineers from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on how to run AI evals. In my new episode, he shares a free master class on how to build evals for a real AI agent in just 50 minutes using a simple spreadsheet. I learned a lot from Hamel and I think you will too.Hamel and I talked about:(00:00) What the most valuable part of evals is(01:25) Live walkthrough: Analyzing 100 real production traces(09:50) Creating the eval criteria using a simple spreadsheet(24:44) Why binary pass/fail ratings beat 1-5 scores every time(28:52) The agreement metric trap that fools most PMs(30:08) True positive and negative rates explained(36:00) How to set up continuous evals in productionGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/ai-evaluations-crash-course-in-50-minutes-hamel-husainWhere to find Hamel:X: https://x.com/HamelHusainWebsite: https://hamel.dev/📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!