When Machines Debug Themselves: From Text Logs to Binary Intelligence
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Generative AI
When Machines Debug Themselves: From Text Logs to Binary Intelligence We’re heading toward a world where software agents don’t just assist - they build, run, monitor, and debug systems autonomously. In that world, traditional logging becomes a bottleneck. Today’s logs are designed for humans: Text-based Loosely structured Verbose and redundant Optimized for readability, not efficiency Even “structured logs” (JSON) are still fundamentally human-centric. They are heavy, slow to parse, and ambiguous at scale. If agents are the primary consumers, this approach won’t hold.