Evals in Laravel: How to Prove Your AI Output Is Actually Good

What it is — A practical guide to building AI-output evals (distinct from unit tests) in a Laravel app.

Key points

• Tests check “did it run”; evals check “is it good”.
• Golden datasets for deterministic outputs, an LLM-judge for open-ended ones.
• Run on a schedule / before prompt changes, sampling prod traffic to catch model drift.