Agents generating Python per action make traces far harder to debug than built-in tool calls
BraceSproul · x · 2026-09-09
Developer BraceSproul flags a real agent-engineering pain point: letting models generate a Python script for every action is more capable than calling built-in tools with occasional bash, but it makes debugging traces much harder to read. He asks for better approaches beyond his idea of having a smaller model label each script with natural language—a discussion hitting a genuine gap in agent observability.
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