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Nihit Nirmal

Evals aren't testing, they're teaching

Evals aren't testing, they're teaching

Most of us who built products before LLMs carry the same instincts into it. You spec it, you build it, you test it, you ship it. QA sits at the end. We carried that instinct into building with LLMs — and it broke. At Yuuki*, we built an AI coaching product

Agentic Engineering: Technically Correct, Contextually Naive

A startup CEO recently posted that his team generated a million lines of code with AI agents in a quarter. After twelve months shipping a production voice AI platform with AI coding agents, I've started paying attention to a different question: what happens after the code is written?

The Quality gap nobody talks about

The constraint We served 8 enterprise clients with different compliance requirements, different business logic, and different quality standards. And, our Product, Design & Engineering (PDE) team was two people, Prashant and I. No QA team. No SRE. No engineering manager reviewing pull requests. Every line of code that reaches production