@hwchase17: Detecting issues in production agent traces is hard. You have to do it cheaply (because of volume) but also accurately …
Summary
Harrison Chase announces a post-trained model for detecting issues in production agent traces, claiming SOTA accuracy at 10-100x cheaper rates than frontier models.
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