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This is the missing manual. It's the first useful thing I've seen on moving from a 'cool' agent demo to something you'd actually ship. It replaces wishful thinking with a real process.
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4.2/5 Last verified: August 31, 2026
Developers who have built a basic agent and are now asking 'Is this thing any good?'
Assumes you're bought into the Microsoft Foundry ecosystem.
Developers who have built a basic agent and are now asking 'Is this thing any good?'
Absolute beginners or anyone looking for a theoretical deep dive on statistical evaluation.
This module finally answered the question that’s been bugging me for months: how do I know if my agent is getting better, or just different? I've been hacking on a small RAG project, and my 'evaluation' was just me asking it questions until I got a bad answer. It felt stupid. This module lays out a proper engineering discipline for it.
The Git-based workflow alone was worth the hour. Instead of messing with my main branch, I can now create a test branch, tweak a prompt or a model, run a batch of test cases, and compare the outputs side-by-side. It’s structured. It’s repeatable.
The exercise has you write a scoring function. It’s a simple pass/fail based on keywords, which is a bit basic for production, but it forces you to think in terms of automated metrics, not just vibes. It introduces concepts like 'groundedness' and 'relevance'—finally, a vocabulary to describe *why* a response is bad, instead of just saying 'it hallucinates'.
It’s not perfect. The whole thing is clearly a gateway to get you to use Microsoft Foundry. Fair enough. And the scoring could be more advanced; real-world evaluation needs to handle nuance, not just keyword matching. But it gets you 80% of the way there, from zero to a repeatable, evidence-based process. It’s less of a 'course' and more of a standard operating procedure I can now apply.
Last verified: August 31, 2026. We re-check course details periodically — see our methodology. Pricing and availability can change; always confirm on the official site.
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