Your Agent Deserves Logs

I’ve had a bug in Plinky since launch that I hadn’t been able to fix until a few weeks ago. Every so often a paying user would see a banner asking them to upgrade to Plinky Pro, even though they’d already paid. Beyond it being a subpar user experience, I felt particularly bad because I was annoying someone who’d actively chosen to support my work. I tried quite a few fixes, including some approaches that I’m not particularly proud of — but none of them did the trick. Rather than trying another fix, I decided to see what would happen if I let Codex take a shot at the problem. As Codex was working I made a connection I’d never made before: whenever I hand my coding agent a few logs it gets dramatically better at debugging. LLMs are great at spotting patterns in large datasets, so I began to wonder — if 10 logs helped Codex figure out my bug, what would happen if I added 100, 1,000, or even 10,000? Agents Can’t See What You See Anyone who’s used a coding agent has had this very annoying…