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An eval gate doesn't make a system safe; a learning loop can

From Evals-Driven Development for a Mental Health AI Coach — Akele Reed & Dave Revere, SonderMind · ≈9:22

States the core thesis — safety comes from a loop that keeps discovering new failure cases, not from a fixed test suite you pass once.

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States the core thesis — safety comes from a loop that keeps discovering new failure cases, not from a fixed test suite you pass once.

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Thanks, Alea. So, I have a son and that means that I have one very technical skill that's not on my resume. And that's translating the words I'm fine, right? Because there's fine meaning I'm okay, but I just don't want to talk right now. And then there's fine meaning something's not okay and I need to dig in. Right? So, the point is the words aren't always the message. And that's the engineering problem I want to talk to you about. You just saw where our guardrails sit with the Ka. I want to talk to you about how we learn to trust them. Because we all know that a simple eval gate does not make a system safe. A learning loop can. And in mental health, that loop has to be able to find and catch the sentence underneath the sentence like this one. I packed a box today. just one to feel what it would be like to be gone. Let that sit with you for a moment.