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# Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

AI agents are moving to production, revealing a "visibility gap" traditional monitoring can’t bridge. This talk shares lessons from shipping agentic AI in safety-critical workflows where agents reason, plan, and execute actions. We’ll explore building observable systems that provide high signal telemetry into non-deterministic decision making.

We’ll examine production agent architecture, combining LLMs with structured reasoning and guardrails, and how to instrument test time compute to track iterative refinement. The session covers designing interoperable tool interfaces that emit rich execution traces, orchestrating specialized agents with reliable handoffs, and building auto-correction loops that parse feedback to adapt in real-time.

Finally, we address evaluation, why traditional metrics fail and how to design domain aware benchmarks that treat reasoning traces as a first class observability primitive. Drawing from production deployments, we’ll discuss how observability helps agents uncover system issues missed by humans and why the future of software depends on agent native infrastructure.

## Speaker

### [Vivek Pandit](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@vivek-pandit)

Principal Engineer at Cadence


## Related talks at this congress

- [Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1684-your-evals-passed) — Tejas Pravinbhai Patel
- [When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1713-when-agents-became) — Yoav Gal, Dor Cohen
- [Agentic Drift: keeping pace with your agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1739-agentic-drift) — John Coghlan
- [Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1432-securing-ai-agent) — Abdel Fane

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