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Strategy8 min readUpdated Apr 24

The evaluation harness: engineering the layer between your AI and production

Most AI systems don't fail because the model is wrong — they fail because nobody built the harness. The evaluation layer that catches drift, enforces guardrails, and tells you when the model is lying. Here's how to engineer one that survives production.

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