Agent Design
Observability Gaps in Agentic Pipelines
Traditional monitoring can't detect when agents make confident but wrong decisions.
Marcus Delacroix-Webb · October 23, 2026 · 9 min read
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3 stories in Agent Design
Traditional monitoring can't detect when agents make confident but wrong decisions.
Autonomous agents lose track of original goals during long tasks, not just when context fills up.
Classical assumptions break when agents produce distributions, not fixed outputs.