The text discusses the importance of evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development, particularly in building robust applications. The author, as the founder of Confident AI, outlines a six-step process for evaluating LLM pipelines: creating an evaluation dataset, identifying relevant metrics, implementing a scorer to compute metric scores, applying each metric to the evaluation dataset, integrating evaluations into CI/CD pipelines, and conducting continuous evaluations in production. The article highlights the benefits of setting up an evaluation framework, including rapid iteration and improvement, and notes that while evaluation is essential, it can be an involved and continuous process. The author also discusses alternative approaches to evaluation, such as auto-evaluation using LLMs as judges, but emphasizes the importance of human evaluation for ensuring robustness. Ultimately, the article recommends using Confident AI's all-in-one platform to evaluate and test LLM applications, fully integrated with DeepEval.