LLM Evaluation for Software Engineers Without an ML Background: the 90+ Checks We Actually Run

I run a content pipeline where AI writes every article — and where AI is, on principle, not trusted. Before any piece ships to our site, it survives more than ninety separate verifications: research checks, fact cross-referencing, a deterministic validator with dozens of rules, integration guards. We never sat down and said "let's build an LLM evaluation harness." We sat down and said "let's not…