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title: "Evals Are Broken, Use Them Anyway — Ara Khan, Cline"
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videoId: "QuuIywMG4s8"
last_enriched: "2026-07-15T23:40:57.146392+00:00"
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# Evals Are Broken, Use Them Anyway — Ara Khan, Cline

## What It Is
An official AI Engineer YouTube channel video with a cached transcript. It is retained as supporting context only because it has not been verified as an actual AI Engineer World's Fair San Francisco 2026 event recording.

## Source Classification
- Source role: supporting official-channel video context, not first-class event evidence.
- Channel/source: official AI Engineer YouTube channel AI Engineer cut video.
- Use: background, speaker, company, or historical AIE context only; do not use for World's Fair San Francisco 2026 session claims unless manually verified against the official event.

## Transcript Status
Cached transcript text is available at `raw/sources/youtube-transcripts/QuuIywMG4s8.txt` (4,050 words).

## Topic Signals
- [[agent-evaluations|Agent Evaluations]], [[coding-agents|Coding Agents]], [[mcp|MCP]], [[agentic-search|Agentic Search]]
- Transcript keywords: `simple`, `fine`, `sequence`, `noticed`, `precise`, `internal`, `getting`, `share`

## Link
[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuuIywMG4s8)

## Extracted Slides
- [[youtube-QuuIywMG4s8-slides]]