Ben Yoskovitz · 29 September 2026 · Operating Insight

The First Version of Your AI Eval is You

Ben Yoskovitz, Partner @ Highline Beta

Manual evaluation of AI output—reading and analyzing results yourself—is the critical first step before automating evals. Ben Yoskovitz walks through how he's discovering quality criteria for Candor (a synthetic research platform) by hand, then codifying them into rules and metrics.

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Topics: Developer Tools · AI (Horizontal)

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