📅 February 14, 2025 – Finalizing My Project Idea

After exploring dozens of ideas, diving deep into LLM4S, and connecting with the Scala Center community, it was finally time to take a leap:

👉 On February 14, 2025, I locked in my final project idea for GSoC 2025.

🎯 The Chosen Problem: Tracing Support for LLM4S

In many modern AI systems, debugging model behavior is like navigating a black box. You send input, get output—but have little clarity on what happened in between.

My idea was to build a tracing layer for LLM4S that enables developers to:

• 📊 Track model execution paths

• 🧩 Visualize intermediate states

• 🔍 Debug failures or logic errors

• 🔄 Log requests/responses across multiple layers

This would bring clarity to LLM workflows, especially when integrating them into complex Scala pipelines.

💬 How I Shaped the Idea

I shared the initial idea draft on the Scala Discord and received encouraging feedback from maintainers and contributors. They helped me scope it realistically, break it into phases, and define concrete deliverables.

I learned to think like a contributor—not just what I wanted to build, but why it mattered and how it would serve others in the community.

📋 Proposal Snapshot

By the end of this phase, I had:

• 🛠️ Outlined three development phases

• 🧠 Designed a modular architecture for the tracing layer

• 📌 Defined clear evaluation metrics for success

• 🔁 Added a fallback plan for each milestone

💬 “This wasn’t just a technical idea anymore—it became a structured roadmap I could proudly present.