You're Flying Blind With Your AI Agents. Here's How to Fix It.

You're Flying Blind With Your AI Agents. Here's How to Fix It. Last Tuesday at 2 AM, I woke up to a $340 bill from OpenAI. My coding agent had been running all evening. I thought it was just refactoring some tests. Turns out it had hit an infinite retry loop on a malformed API response and burned through 8 million tokens. I had no idea until the bill arrived. If you're building with AI agents (coding assistants, autonomous task runners, chatbots), you're probably flying blind too. Here's the problem and how to fix it. The Problem: You Have No Idea What Your Agents Are Doing When you spin up a coding agent like Aider, Cursor, or a custom LangChain workflow, you see the final output. The code it wrote. The answer it gave. The task it completed. What you don't see: How many LLM calls it made to get there Which models it used (did it really need GPT-4, or would 3.5 have worked?) What the actual prompts and responses were How long each call took Which calls failed and got retried What you'r