How to Build Better AI Evals with Claude Code in 5 Steps | Shreya & Hamel

How to Build Better AI Evals with Claude Code in 5 Steps | Shreya & Hamel

August 23, 2026 · 54 min

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Shreya and Hamel discuss AI evaluations and provide insights on building better AI evals.

📌 Copy the AI system I use to run a one-person $1M+ business: https://www.behindthecraft.com 🤝 Subscribe to my practical AI newsletter read by 150K+ professionals: https://creatoreconomy.so Shreya and Hamel teach the industry standard course for AI evaluations taken by 4,500+ students from OpenAI, Google, and more. In our interview, I asked them to give live feedback on the AI evals that I built for my skills and demo how anyone can run evals with ChatGPT/Claude and their free evals skill. Don’t miss this up to date primer on evals from the real experts. 🙂 P.S., I asked Shreya and Hamel to give my audience 25% off the next cohort of their AI evals course. It has 4.7 stars with 900 reviews which is almost unheard of on Maven. Sign up via the link here: https://maven.com/parlance-labs/evals?utm_campaign=peteryang&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=maven&promoCode=PETERYANG We talked about: (00:00) Why AI evals are completely different now with the latest models (02:30) Demo: Live audit of the evals that I built for my AI skills (05:14) Top down vs. bottom up evals and why AI sucks at the latter (08:16) Spinning up AI agents to grade each eval criteria (14:32) Demo…

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Host: Peter Yang

Guests: Shreya, Hamel

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Organizations: OpenAI, Google, Maven, Parlance Labs

Products: ChatGPT, Claude, AI evals course

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