
Learn concepts of AI evaluation, how AI agents work, and how to build and assess them, measuring quality, performance, and cost with tools like Prompt Layer and OpenAI eval API.
Explore how ai agents are automated systems that understand surroundings, use tools, and take actions to achieve goals, breaking tasks into steps and executing them in order.
Evaluate ai agents and llm systems by contrasting model and system evaluation, covering hallucination, retrieval relevance, qa accuracy, toxicity, and tool routing, using iterative, data-driven testing with human feedback.
Explore the four building blocks of an ai agent—prompts, tools, memory, and logic—and see how their integration shapes behavior, task execution, and evaluation strategies.
Learn why rigorous evaluation of AI agents is essential to prevent costly mistakes, manage build and run costs, and catch performance degradation as data and tools change.
Build and run a simple AI agent with the crew AI framework, defining input/output controls and roles like researcher, writer, and reviewer to generate a newsletter draft.
Evaluate ai agents across quality, performance, and cost, measuring accuracy, helpfulness, and edge-case handling; assess response speed and capacity under load; and analyze token costs.
Design metrics across quality, performance, and cost by combining manual review, automated metrics like blue or rouge scores, and task-specific evaluation, while planning logging to track these metrics.
Explore Patronus, Prompt Layer, Lang Smith, OpenAI eval API, and Arise to evaluate AI agents with dashboards, tracing, custom criteria, and production observability.
Integrate Patronus evaluation tools with crew agents to simplify evaluation using evaluator families and custom criteria, after signing up for an API key.
Learn how tracing and observability provide end-to-end visibility into AI agents by instrumenting code with traces and spans using OpenTelemetry, tracking prompts, token usage, tool calls, and responses for monitoring.
Explore how to improve lm evaluators for ai agents by comparing them with ground truth code-based evaluations. Learn meta evaluation techniques and semantic similarity to enhance judge accuracy and scalability.
Explore structural evaluations for AI agents by curating test cases and running experiments. Use evaluators to compare variations and drive a continuous improvement flywheel in production.
Evaluate AI agents by metrics across quality, performance, and cost, using logging, A/B testing, production monitoring, and tools like Prompt Layer, OpenAI eval API, and Arize.
Welcome to this course!
Build and understand the foundational components of AI agents including prompts, tools, memory, and logic
Implement comprehensive evaluation frameworks across quality, performance, and cost dimensions
Master practical A/B testing techniques to optimize your AI agent performance
Use industry-standard tools like Patronus, LangSmith and PromptLayer for efficient agent debugging and monitoring
Create production-ready monitoring systems that track agent performance over time
Course Description
Are you building AI agents but unsure if they're performing at their best? This comprehensive course demystifies the art and science of AI agent evaluation, giving you the tools and frameworks to build, test, and optimize your AI systems with confidence.
Why Evaluate AI Agents Properly?
Building an AI agent is just the first step. Without proper evaluation, you risk:
Deploying agents that make costly mistakes or give incorrect information
Overspending on inefficient systems without realizing it
Missing critical performance issues that could damage user experience
Creating vulnerabilities through hallucinations, biases, or security gaps
There's a smart way and a dumb way to evaluate AI agents - this course ensures you're doing it the smart way.
Course Breakdown:
Module 1: Foundational Concepts in AI Evaluation Start with a solid understanding of what AI agents are and how they work. We'll explore the core components - prompts, tools, memory, and logic - that make agents powerful but also challenging to evaluate. You'll build a simple agent from scratch to solidify these concepts.
Module 2: Agent Evaluation Metrics & Techniques Dive deep into the three critical dimensions of evaluation: quality, performance, and cost. Learn how to design effective metrics for each dimension and implement logging systems to track them. Master A/B testing techniques to compare different agent configurations systematically.
Module 3: Tools & Frameworks for Agent Evaluation Get hands-on experience with industry-standard tools like Patronus, LangSmith, PromptLayer, OpenAI Eval API, and Arize. Learn powerful tracing and debugging techniques to understand your agent's decision paths and detect errors before they impact users. Set up comprehensive monitoring dashboards to track performance over time.
Why This Course Stands Out:
Practical, Hands-On Approach: Build real systems and implement actual evaluation frameworks
Focus on Real-World Applications: Learn techniques used by leading AI teams in production environments
Comprehensive Coverage: Master all three dimensions of evaluation - quality, performance, and cost
Tool-Agnostic Framework: Learn principles that apply regardless of which specific tools you use
Latest Industry Practices: Stay current with cutting-edge evaluation techniques from the field
Who This Course Is For:
AI Engineers & Developers building or maintaining LLM-based agents
Product Managers overseeing AI product development
Technical Leaders responsible for AI strategy and implementation
Data Scientists transitioning into AI agent development
Anyone who wants to ensure their AI agents deliver quality results efficiently
Requirements:
Basic understanding of Python programming
Familiarity with AI/ML concepts (helpful but not required)
Free accounts on evaluation platforms (instructions provided)
Don't deploy another AI agent without properly evaluating it. Join this course and master the techniques that separate amateur AI implementations from professional-grade systems that deliver real value.
Your Instructor:
With extensive experience building and evaluating AI agents in production environments, your instructor brings practical insights and battle-tested techniques to help you avoid common pitfalls and implement best practices from day one.
Enroll now and start building AI agents you can trust!