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LangChain's Better Harness: Hill-Climbing AI Agents to New Heights with Evals

LangChain just cracked the code on making AI agents smarter—without retraining models. Their Better Harness recipe uses evals to hill-climb performance, turning failures into rocket fuel.

AI agent climber scaling a data peak with eval footholds and harness ropes

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Evals act as 'training data' for agent harnesses, driving iterative improvements without model changes. 𝕏
  • Source evals from hand-curation, production traces, and external sets; tag for efficiency and holdouts. 𝕏
  • Holdout sets and human review prevent overfitting, ensuring production generalization. 𝕏
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Originally reported by LangChain Blog

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