AI agents removed the friction from writing telemetry
I used to avoid adding telemetry because it felt like tedious busywork. Now with Claude handling the OpenTelemetry boilerplate, I'm instrumenting everything.
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Mae
I used to avoid adding telemetry because it felt like tedious busywork. Now with Claude handling the OpenTelemetry boilerplate, I'm instrumenting everything.
AI agents work better when given appropriate context and guardrails.
I've been using Claude Code to offload tedious parts of platform engineering: dependency reviews, generating test PRs, dependency migrations, and project cleanup.