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LLM & AI Agent Benchmarks vs Reality: Why AI Applications Break

LLM & AI Agent Benchmarks vs Reality: Why AI Applications Break

LLM leaderboard scores often don't reflect real-world performance. This video explains why and outlines a comprehensive approach to evaluate AI systems, focusing on the critical balance of accuracy, latency, and cost. It details model and system evaluation techniques, including handling different inference phases, workload shapes, and specific considerations for AI agents, emphasizing the need for realistic testing over generic benchmarks.

Reliability Engineering Mindset • Alex Ewerlöf & Charity Majors • GOTO 2025

Reliability Engineering Mindset • Alex Ewerlöf & Charity Majors • GOTO 2025

Alex Ewerlöf, author of "Reliability Engineering Mindset," discusses the significant gap between Google's idealized SRE practices and the resource-constrained reality of most companies. The conversation focuses on making Service Level Objectives (SLOs) practical by tying Service Level Indicators (SLIs) directly to business impact, using them as a data-driven communication tool to negotiate reliability costs, and moving from a "best practice" to a "fit practice" mindset.