Opentelemetry

Everyone’s newest report is Claude and the dude is a machine.

We really need to get a sense of what this guy is up to. Testing out ideas. Building really low quality designs. Writing the most boring and awful prose.

But the Claude in my IDE is just the one I can see. While I’m busy watching him, there’s another one picking up tickets and opening PRs. One reviewing all the PRs. One fixing the build when it goes red. I thought I hired a coworker. I staffed a whole department — and every one of them is shoving inputs into the same pipeline I’m on the hook for.

How much is it moving the team forward? The Company? And at what cost?

Each observability tool tends to lead users toward a specific workflow. In the same way that working with computers on Windows or MacOS has very different starting points, Logs, Metrics, and Traces each have several entry points.

I want to dig into the benefits and drawbacks of each default workflow.