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Why You Should Care About Observability in LLM Workflows

Why You Should Care About Observability in LLM Workflows

An inside look at AlwaysCool.ai's journey from simple GPT wrappers to a production-ready agentic infrastructure. This talk covers the evolution from synchronous tools to asynchronous, multi-step flows orchestrated by LangGraph, the critical role of OpenTelemetry for compliance and observability, and the architectural patterns of using FastAPI to serve centralized AI agents.

AI Agent Development Tradeoffs You NEED to Know

AI Agent Development Tradeoffs You NEED to Know

Sherwood Callaway of 11X discusses the architecture of "Alice," an AI Sales Development Representative. He covers the practical decision to use LangGraph for its reliability in production, the challenges of infrastructure and observability when using hosted agent platforms, and their methodology for running Evals to mitigate hallucinations by comparing generated content against source data.