Traces and Evals Explained: The Building Blocks of AI and Agent Testing | Ep. 2 @arizeai
Traces and Evals Explained: The Building Blocks of AI and Agent Testing | Ep. 2  @arizeai
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Learn the two primitives every AI evaluation strategy is built on, and why agents make both of them harder. Before you can fix an agent, you need a shared vocabulary for what's actually going wrong.

Multi-step agents fail in ways a single LLM call never will: picking the wrong tool, compounding small mistakes across steps, or breaking down entirely in multi-agent setups.

Watch this to learn:
β€’ Traces and spans: how to see every LLM call, tool call, and agent step
β€’ Code evals vs. LLM-as-a-judge, and when to use each
β€’ Why agents raise the difficulty (tool selection, multi-step non-determinism, multi-agent systems)
β€’ Capability evals vs. regression evals

Chapters:
00:00 Recap: why shipping AI is different
00:29 What evals actually are
00:42 Traces and spans, explained
01:23 Code evals vs. LLM-as-a-judge
03:04 Why agents make evaluation harder
05:11 Capability evals vs. regression evals
05:37 Recap and what's next

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