Week 11 · Observability & break-glass · about 3 minutes
What you will be able to do
Run Helix's old and new models side by side and count wins before switching traffic.
The idea
Shadow or A/B the candidate on the golden set (and a live sample). Count wins on faithfulness, latency, cost.
Switch only when the numbers clear the bar.
wins = sum(score(b, q) > score(a, q) for q in suite)
assert wins / len(suite) >= 0.55Marketing slides are not an A/B test.
Key takeaways
- Side-by-side on a suite.
- Track quality, latency, $.
- Ramp on evidence.
Part of the Forward Deployed Engineer roadmap. New to the role? Start with what a Forward Deployed Engineer does.