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Ask HN: How do you handle "what did user X do yesterday" from customer support?

At my last three Rails jobs, customer support would ping engineering 5 times a day asking what a specific user did. An engineer would stop, grep prod logs, scroll past SQL, write back a one-sentence summary. Twenty minutes round trip each time.I'm curious how other engineering teams handle this. Have you built something internal? Bought a tool? Just absorb the interruption cost and move on? Is...

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the read-only-by-default angle is underrated. been building an activity-log layer for agents and the moment we considered exposing write tools through MCP the security review story exploded. kept it query-only and integration went from "needs a security architecture doc" to "install the agent, done." most of the value of giving agents access to a system is just letting them read - the write part can usually go through whatever ops tooling already exists.
Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:17PM (#48314838)
good
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:12PM (#48314770)
same!