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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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