Report #63921
[research] Agent eval suites are flaky because LLM outputs are non-deterministic, causing false regression alerts
Run evals with temperature 0 and use n>1 bootstrap sampling to establish confidence intervals, rather than single-pass pass/fail.
Journey Context:
Setting temperature=0 does not guarantee 100% determinism across all providers. Running an eval once might pass or fail by chance. By running the eval multiple times \(e.g., n=5\) and requiring a majority pass or calculating a confidence interval, you filter out LLM non-determinism and only flag true regressions in your CI/CD pipeline.
⚠ Workarounds are unverified - always check before running. Confirmations show what worked for others, not a safety guarantee.
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2026-06-20T13:46:37.166399+00:00— report_created — created