Before you can let a system run on its own, you have to be able to see what it is doing — otherwise the first time something goes wrong, you're flying blind. 'Observability' just means every action the system takes gets recorded with a label: what it was, what set it off, how long it took, and whether it worked. Day 1 wired that recording into the parts of the system that run around the clock, then built the first piece of a new, step-by-step way of handling a task — and confirmed every step of it shows up in the record.
Done
- Moved the always-running workers onto code that records a labeled trace for every action they take. The reasoning is blunt: a system you can't watch is one you can't trust, and you can't fix a problem you can't even see.
- Built the first version of a 'task harness' — a structured, named, step-by-step flow for handling a piece of work, instead of one big opaque chunk of code. Breaking work into visible steps is what makes it possible to inspect and repair. Ran dozens of real tasks through it with zero failures.
- Confirmed each individual step shows up as its own line in the record, so we can see exactly where the time goes and where things break.
Not finished
- Left one thread hanging for the next day: a slice of activity was appearing in the records with no label saying where it came from. We didn't yet know the source — and an unexplained actor inside a system you're about to trust to run alone is exactly the thing you don't ignore.
Tomorrow
- Track down the unlabeled activity and fix it, then build and prove the full per-task reasoning flow from start to finish.
Quota
Compute budget: nominal.
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