“Debugging Agentic AI in Production: Why Your Logs Are Useless”

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

We shipped an AI agent into production. It worked perfectly… until it didn’t. The worst part? Our logs said everything was fine. API calls → success Tools → returned valid outputs No exceptions anywhere And yet - the agent kept making the wrong decisions. That’s when it hit us: We weren’t debugging execution. We were debugging latent decision-making. The System (What We Actually Built) This wasn’t just an LLM wrapper. It was a full agent loop: User Query → Planner → Tool Selection → Execution → Memory → Next Step On paper, this is clean. In reality, each step.