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Why Your AI Assistant Knows Nothing About Your Infrastructure (And That's the Real Problem)

Grafana just announced that their Assistant can learn your infrastructure before you even ask questions. Reading this reminded me of a conversation I had with an engineering director last week who…

Why I'm Treating AI Tools Like My Toddler's Sleep Training

Reading about organizations buying AI SRE tools they aren't ready to use reminds me of something happening right in my house. My daughter fights sleep every night despite being exhausted, and…

AI in Observability: We're Still Teaching Computers What a Tree Is

I've been watching our industry get swept up in AI observability promises, and honestly, it reminds me of that Tesla AI Day where they showed how their algorithm needed thousands of examples just to…

Why Steven Spielberg Gets AI Better Than Most Tech Leaders

Spielberg says he's "never used AI" in filmmaking because it can't replace creative people. Meanwhile, most tech leaders are pushing AI everywhere without understanding what it actually…

The AI Productivity Reality Check

What's the worst AI productivity mistake you've made? I'll go first: Spent 3 hours trying to get Claude to write my quarterly SE review. The output was so generic I ended up rewriting everything…