Build a Tiny Eval Loop Before You Trust the Local Model
Create a small PDCA evaluation loop for a local model workflow.
A compliance team wants to trust a local policy Q&A assistant after three impressive demo answers. Use PDCA: plan the eval, do the run, check failures, act by standardizing or changing one variable. The trap is calling a demo an eval. A demo shows possibility; an eval shows repeatability against the workflow's failure modes. Plan Create 30 questions: 10 routine, 10 exception-heavy, and 10 ambiguous. Define pass as 90 percent correct with citations and no unsafe certainty. Planning names the task's real risks before the model sees the questions. The pass rule prevents moving the goalpost after a charming answer.…
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