Why serious AI builders are skipping third-party evals
THE SO WHAT
Top AI teams treating evaluation as a core product function—not something outsourced to dashboards—is a shift from tooling to discipline. If you’re shipping AI features at scale, you need an internal eval stack wired into your own data, risk thresholds, and release gates, even if you still sample external benchmarks for optics.
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