Tag: observability
All the articles with the tag "observability".
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Ninety days of scars
Ninety days ago I started enforcing corrections outside the model. This week I pulled the first real metrics, and it is a mixed result. The busiest hook gets ignored 62% of the time, two of my own tools disagreed about the same number, and the dashboard stayed green while a whole layer was dead.
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How do you know a correction held? Instrumenting an agent in production
Functional scars make a correction persist. They don't tell you whether the system as a whole is getting better. So I instrumented every session — deterministic, zero-token, never blocking — and let a monthly pass turn the evidence into mechanism changes. The first thing the data caught was me.
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A month of functional scars: 934 fires, one broken validation loop, and what it cost
I wired ten functional scars into my own workspace and let them run for a month. Half the signal came from one hook with documented false positives, and 3,838 captured opportunities sat unread. Here are the numbers and what they forced me to build.