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Evaluation Stacks That Survive the Market: Cleaned Transcript
Two years ago, it was easy to believe you could buy one evaluation tool to cover your entire AI application. Today, an all-in-one platform is a danger. In the 2026 market, every major vendor ships the same basic workflow. They capture traces, turn them into datasets, run offline experiments, and score traffic with LLMs. That baseline functionality is now table stakes.
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