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by Akula112233 463 days ago
Yep, but it's sometimes a compromise people may be unwilling to make. Too often I hear (and have seen via DD customers) horror stories about initiatives to fix observability squashed by teams in hopes of shipping.

Moving fast has it's downsides and I can't say I blame people for deprioritizing good logging practices. But it does come back to bite...

Though as a caveat, you don't always have control over your logs -- especially with third party services, large but fragmented engineering organizations, etc. -- even with great internal practices, there's always something.

On another note, access to codebase + live logs gives room to develop better auto-instrumentation tooling. Though perhaps cursor could do a decent enough job at starting folks off