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Your agent's success rate is hiding critical infrastructure failures
◆ 90RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack5h ago
Success metrics alone won't alert you to inefficient loops or tool-call failures that still result in a correct final answer. You must monitor behavioral telemetry and tool-call volume to catch infrastructure regressions that bloat your COGS. This changes how you define a production-ready agent.
Takeaways
- High-level success metrics mask underlying infrastructure faults and cost spikes.
- Track tool-call volume to identify inefficient reasoning loops and latent errors.
- Behavioral telemetry is required to debug agents that succeed via brute force.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
I broke a working agent seven ways. The metric I was watching caught two of them.
fmode.me/n/i-broke-a-working-agent-seven-ways-the-metric-i-was-watching-caught-two-of-them
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