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AI agents and traces as the new engineering primitive

April 3, 2026Garry Tan, LangChain, Ashlee Vance

Garry Tan spotlights decision traces with long context, LangChain says tracing is foundational for improving agents, and Ashlee Vance highlights a CEO running a company on OpenClaw with detailed agent usage.

Decision traces are a big deal and now possible with 1M token context
Tracing is the foundational primitive for improving agents.
A trace gives you the full behavioral record of what an agent actually did.
Don't think I've heard any other CEO describe agent use in such detail before.
Garry Tan
LangChain
Ashlee Vance
Pedro Franceschi
ai-agentsobservabilitydevtools

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