Feedback Loop Architecture
Loop Latency and Its Effect on Agent Improvement Velocity
Sequential LLM calls create hidden delays that compound into agent improvement bottlenecks.
Celeste Oduya13 min read
Production Learning Review — Page 3
Feedback Loop Architecture
Signal Quality Degradation in Long-Running Feedback Loops
Agent loops keep running smoothly on wrong information until damage accumulates invisibly.
Rafael Soo
· 12 min read
Changelog
Feedback Loop Architecture
Routing Production Failures Into Regression Test Suites
Capture real production failures to build more realistic agent regression tests.
Celeste Oduya9 min read
Feedback Loop Architecture
Human-in-the-Loop Review Gates for Agent Harness Changes
Treating harness changes as production infrastructure requires human sign-off like code review does.
Rafael Soo12 min read
Feedback Loop Architecture
Prioritizing Agent Fix Backlog by Production Failure Impact
Ranking agent fixes by production impact and failure type prevents costly misalignment delays.
Tomasz Wierzbicki11 min read
Feedback Loop Architecture
Closed-Loop Agent Improvement Pipeline Design
Skipping evaluation stages leaves teams improving agents by accident instead of design.
Priya Nambiar11 min read
Production Signal Theory
Behavioral Logs vs. Evaluation Scores as Improvement Inputs
Behavioral logs reveal what agents actually did; evaluation scores only show whether they succeeded.
Priya Nambiar8 min read
Production Signal Theory
Trace Sampling Strategies for Agent Observability
Sampling strategy determines whether agent failures get recorded or vanish silently.
Rafael Soo10 min read
Production Signal Theory
Root Cause Attribution in Multi-Step Agent Runs
Tracing where multi-step agent failures actually originate, not where they surface.
Priya Nambiar10 min read
Production Signal Theory
Cost, Latency, and Quality Alerting on Agent Production Traces
Unified alerting catches agent failures that span cost, latency, and quality.
Celeste Oduya14 min read
Production Signal Theory
Signal-to-Noise Ratio in High-Volume LLM Trace Streams
Filtering agent traces requires understanding where failures actually originate.
Priya Nambiar11 min read
Production Signal Theory
Taxonomy of Agent Failure Signals by Harness Layer
Most agent failures originate in the runtime harness, not the model itself.
Rafael Soo12 min read
