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Why Can't You Debug an AI Agent the Way You Debug an API?
Community description: I spent two hours staring at a terminal that said nothing useful. The agent had "succeeded." Status:...
Dev.to | Sep 14, 2026 | Anindya Mukherjee
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The agent had "succeeded." Status: green. Agents fail like interns, not like services A microservice fails loudly. You need the same three things every debuggable system has: Identity — a run id for the whole job Steps — ordered spans: plan → tool call → tool result → decision Outcomes — success / retry / give-up, with why Not a novel. A pasteable mini flight recorder Drop this next to your agent loop. Your turn: open the last agent run you are half-proud of.
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