Agent Telemetry Is Not Agent Control
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GitHub's Copilot updates added session streaming, cost tracking, OpenTelemetry exports. Useful. But here's the thing: seeing what went wrong and stopping it before it happens are not the same layer. You can log that an agent retried 14 times. You can't prevent call 15 from your dashboard. This is the gap. Telemetry = evidence. Control = prevention. Telemetry answers: "What happened?" Runtime control answers: "Should this next call happen?" Both matter. They just happen at different times. Why…
1Key Takeaways
- GitHub's Copilot updates added session streaming, cost tracking, OpenTelemetry exports.
- But here's the thing: seeing what went wrong and stopping it before it happens are not the same layer.
- You can log that an agent retried 14 times.
- You can't prevent call 15 from your dashboard.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that gitHub's Copilot updates added session streaming, cost tracking, OpenTelemetry exports.
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