How Evals and Prompts Shape Agent Behavior — Google Team Lessons

Highlights

01:10

Pure prompts cannot produce stable behavior; eval is needed as a feedback signal

10:28

Agent trace logs expose failure causes, preventing new bugs from breaking old features

14:29

Small changes to evaluation metrics can completely overturn agent behavior results

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This talk describes how agent behavior emerges from a loop of prompts, evals, iteration, and feedback, using the example of a seed-asset agent built by Google.

The agent turns messy advertising creatives — low-quality images, cluttered visuals, heavy text overlays — into clean, reusable assets for downstream generative AI tools.

The speakers share lessons: prompting alone produced unstable behavior; evals were used as feedback signals rather than scorecards; agent trace logs revealed why failures occurred; and iteration was done without breaking fixes already in place.

Speakers include Chris Souza, Preetika Bhateja (product manager), and Daniel Bump (engineer).

This talk describes how agent behavior emerges from a loop of prompts, evals, iteration, and feedback, using the example of a seed-asset agent built by Google.

The agent turns messy advertising creatives — low-quality images, cluttered visuals, heavy text overlays — into clean, reusable assets for downstream generative AI tools.

The speakers share lessons: prompting alone produced unstable behavior; evals were used as feedback signals rather than scorecards; agent trace logs revealed why failures occurred; and iteration was done without breaking fixes already in place.

Speakers include Chris Souza, Preetika Bhateja (product manager), and Daniel Bump (engineer).

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