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Lesson 1: Fundamentals & Lifecycle of Application-Centric Evals

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Recorded Lecture: Fundamentals & Lifecycle of Application-Centric Evals

Lesson 1

You will learn:

- Why evaluation matters for LLM applications - business impact and risk mitigation

- Challenges unique to evaluating LLM outputs - common failure modes and context-dependence

- The evals lifecycle

- Prompting fundamentals

This lecture covers Chapters 1 & 2 in the course reader.

The optional homework for this lecture is homework 1 in https://github.com/ai-evals-course/recipe-chatbot.

Slides (note that we only cover some of the slides, and often do not go through the slides linearly): Lesson 1 Slides

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