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Your company wants an AI agent in the on-call rotation. What does it do, and what does it never do?

The valuable part is the first ten minutes of context gathering, which is tedious and mechanical. The dangerous part is anything that changes production while a human is still working out what is wrong.

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Next in this trackHalf your team's Terraform is now written by an assistant. What changes about how you run reviews and pipelines?Next in this trackTeams are connecting agents to internal systems ad hoc. Design the gateway that goes in front.Next in this trackBuild the cost model for serving your own open-weight model versus paying an API per token. Where is the break-even?

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