Episode
Optimizing Agent Behavior in Production with Gideon Mendels
Software Engineering Daily · Feb 17, 2026 · 52 min
LLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practices don’t commonly encounter. Models and agents are non-deterministic systems, which makes it difficult to test changes, reason about failures, and confidently ship updates. This has created the need for new evaluation tooling designed specifically…