Debugging Agents Is Harder Than Building Them: Observability Is the Real Bottleneck
omar-felde5315v · reddit · 2026-09-09
A developer argues that agent discussions focus too much on capability while the harder problem is observability. Agent failures can happen anywhere—wrong tool, stale context, a bad assumption steps earlier—and a successful outcome doesn't mean the workflow was good. They ask how teams actually evaluate agents in production: final outcomes vs execution traces.
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