Why Agents Break Without Observability

Description

If your system ships features but hides failures, you’ve got a visibility problem. In this episode of Dot Slash Deploy, co-hosts Austin Vance, Micah Adams, and Shahed Syed break down what real software observability looks like in 2025. From tracing to metrics to logs (and the traps teams fall into), they explore how to build systems that talk back—and why that matters more than ever. 00:00 Eval Driven Development Origins 03:41 Understanding Evaluation through Discovery 09:23 "Improving LLMs with Observability Data" 10:44 Continuous AI Integration Discovery 16:12 Agent Accountability and Observability 17:10 Optimizing AI Agent Efficiency 22:40 "Agent-Invented Features Obligations" 24:18 AI in Outbound Sales Challenges 29:26 "Ensuring AI Accuracy with References"