“Debugging Agentic AI in Production: Why Your...

Artificial intelligence agents can automate tasks, but what happens when the AI itself breaks? Developers on Reddit and in industry forums are grappling with this very question. Tools like BrainTrust, LangSmith, Helicone, and Maxim AI have emerged to help trace and inspect agent behavior. In this article, we walk through a real-world scenario: an autonomous agent chain that faltered in production, and exactly how we debugged it end-to-end. Imagine you have a multi-step agent (planner, document r