Why logging is vital for agent apps: accountability, evals, and self-healing
jasonkneen · x · 2026-08-18
Developer Jason Kneen argues logging is vital when building agent-based applications, for three reasons: accountability, evals, and self-healing.
For self-healing, he records all activity during development, then lets the app or the build agent regularly review those logs to optimize and improve itself.
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