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by BlueHotDog2 124 days ago
Agent looping is a brutal problem to debug. Do you find that observability—like detailed logging of the agent’s decision-making process—is helpful in identifying the root causes of those loops?
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Honestly yeah – static catches structural stuff (missing exit conditions). But the trickier loops are when the model keeps deciding to retry. Like "let me try one more search" forever. That's prompt behavior, need runtime traces for those.