Metrics That Actually Matter: Evaluating AI Agents Beyond Success Rate
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Introduces a practical framework for evaluating AI agents using concrete metrics beyond success rate — specifically time-to-completion, tool-call efficiency, error recovery rate, and cost per successful task — illustrated with real deployment examples. Explains how optimizing the wrong metrics causes hidden failure modes (excessive retries, inefficient tool use, silent errors, rising operational costs) and links these failures to AI safety risks, finishing with concrete evaluation strategies and trade-offs for designing more realistic, safety-aware metrics.
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