Engineers
~60–90 pages
Evaluating LLMs for Code Tasks
Benchmarking Models on Real Workloads, Avoiding Benchmark Gaming, and Making Cost-Quality Decisions
Free Ebook
EPUB + Markdown
By David Kelly Price
About This Ebook
Senior ML engineers, architects, and engineering managers choosing or comparing LLMs for code generation, review, or search
What you'll learn:
- 1. Why Vendor Benchmarks Are Not Enough
- 2. Designing Your Own Evaluation Suite
- 3. Task Categories: Generation, Completion, Review, Search
- 4. Evaluation Metrics That Actually Predict Production Quality
- 5. Cost-Quality Tradeoffs and the Efficient Frontier
- 6. Latency, Throughput, and Context Window Limits
- 7. Fine-Tuning vs. Prompting for Code Tasks
- 8. Building a Continuous Evaluation System
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