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Ask HN: How do you know when your AI agent's output quality degrades?

A Hacker News user asks how to detect when an AI agent's response quality degrades in production before customers complain, noting that cost and latency monitoring tools exist but quality monitoring remains unsolved.

read1 min views38 publishedJun 26, 2026

Running an AI agent in production and curious how others handle this. Cost and latency monitoring is solved (Helicone, Langfuse, etc.) but I can't find a good answer for: how do you get alerted when the quality of your agent's responses drops before a customer tells you?

What are you doing today?

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689447](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689447)

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