Even though fewer people read code directly anymore because agents write it, observability and good dashboards matter more than ever, since humans still need to interpret agent behavior and make judgment calls.

Akshat argues that as agents increasingly write and execute code that humans no longer read, strong observability becomes more important than ever so humans can still interpret what's happening and intervene. ✦ AI generated

Akshat Bubna · Latent Space · 2026-07-08 · original ↗

Like how good is your dashboard? And of course, like we have, we push a lot of it to the CLI so the agents can do their own investigation, but you still need humans to go interpret what's going on and, make judgment calls and whatnot. and that's I feel like, Maybe more important now than looking at the code itself.

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