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From Blind Spots to Observability: Operationalizing LLM Apps with OpenLit
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Summary In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast, Aman Agarwal, creator of OpenLit, discusses the operational foundations required to run LLM-powered applications in production. He highlights common early blind spots teams face, including opaque model behavior, runaway token costs, and brittle prompt management, emphasizing that strong observability and cost tracking must be established before an MVP ships. Aman explains how OpenLit leverages OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral tracing across models, tools, and data stores, and introduces features such as prompt and secret management with versioning, evaluation workflows (including LLM-as-a-judge), and fleet management for OpenTelemetry…