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You Can't Debug What Bedrock Swallowed

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Danish Javed
Software Engineer

There's a particular kind of hell reserved for debugging LLM-backed systems that nobody bothered to instrument. You've got a request that took twelve seconds and you don't know if the slow part was your retrieval pipeline, the prompt construction, the Bedrock call itself, or the post-processing that turned the model's output into something you'd actually show a user. You have logs. You have vibes. You have, essentially, nothing.

We hit this early on an LLM project and it focused the mind quickly.