The Trace Lake: Why Capturing Agent Traces Is Key to Extracting Value from Agents
indragie · x · 2026-11-04
ankrgyl promotes his article "The Trace Lake": tracing began as a way to find bottlenecks in complex multi-service software, but building a trace lake — a centralized repository of agent execution traces — may be the single most important thing you can do to capture value from agents, both to understand and improve how you build software internally and to improve agent quality externally.
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