How many times have you, while investigating an (admittedly rare ;)) production bug, stumbled upon an exception backtrace that just doesn’t have enough information? For example, an exception gets reraised, destroying the original backtrace with it. So now your logs say that your AI failed to take over the world with AIEpicFailError (great, you already know that), but not why (Timeout::Error while connecting to stackoverflow.com).

https://blog.cloud66.com/advanced-ruby-exception-handling/