Sankalp Gilda

Your AI Eval Is Lying To You

When you set temperature=0 and run your AI eval, you expect the same input to give the same output. It doesn't. Recent measurements on Qwen3-235B at temperature=0 produced 80 unique completions on a single prompt. So when your eval reports "92% pass rate," what does that actually mean? This talk is about the gap between how the AI eval ecosystem talks about scores and what those scores can actually support. We walk through five specific tools that fix the gap: Pass@k versus pass^k, Wilson confidence intervals, Bayesian pass@k with Beta-Binomial conjugacy, sequential drift detection with EWMA, CUSUM, and OLS, and family-wise error control via Benjamini-Hochberg procedures. Each method gets a short demo in pure Python with no framework dependency. The audience leaves with reference implementations they can paste into an existing pytest setup tonight.