Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

I have begun to truly embrace vibe coding over the last few months, using Cursor as my main code editor and Claude Sonnet 4 for my agent's LLM. It's an exciting time as a developer, we get to experiment with something that promises to 100x our productivity while pioneering the new workflows and strategies for implementing these tools. But, as most people who have done any extensive development with LLMs in a sufficiently sized code base knows, it's a bit like trying to herd scared cats.

Retail stores have long relied on a secret weapon to measure and improve the shopping experience: the secret shopper. Posing as ordinary customers, they evaluate the customer experience, spotting friction points like hard-to-find items, gauging the quality of customer service, and testing how seamless the checkout process feels.

This could’ve been prevented. This should have been prevented. This too. We all hate getting tagged in PRs. The time, the blame for when you inevitably miss something, and constant “I wouldn’t have written it that way” feeling is just hard to shake. LLMs promised this would get easier. Promised they would do it for us. But as we’ve seen, we’re not there yet. But this is what Sentry does for a living. We catch bugs… in prod.