Your AI Agent Passes Your Evals.

Your AI Agent Passes Your Evals. It Will Still Break in Production. Here’s What I’ve Learned About the Gap. Evaluation isn’t a benchmark problem. It’s an autonomy problem. And the further you push autonomy, the the gap between “passes evals” and “works reliably” widens. Image generated by AI A few months ago I shipped what I thought was a careful agent. The prompt was tight. The test set covered the obvious failure modes. The agent passed every scenario I’d written for it.