Charity Majors on AI, Determinism, Instrumentation, & Eating Your Broccoli

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RedMonk Video RedMonk Tech Events James Governor talks with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, about what AI is doing to engineering practices. Agents in production are finally forcing teams to do the instrumentation work they should have done years ago. They get into Chad Fowler’s Phoenix architectures and the idea that the system, not the code, holds the truth about how software behaves.

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▪RedMonk Video RedMonk Tech Events James Governor talks with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, about what AI is doing to engineering practices.
▪Agents in production are finally forcing teams to do the instrumentation work they should have done years ago.
▪They get into Chad Fowler’s Phoenix architectures and the idea that the system, not the code, holds the truth about how software behaves.

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Conversations Charity Majors on AI, Determinism, Instrumentation, & Eating Your Broccoli RedMonk Video Share via Twitter Share via Facebook Share via Linkedin Share via Reddit Get more video from Redmonk, Subscribe! RedMonk Video RedMonk Tech Events James Governor talks with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, about what AI is doing to engineering practices. Majors argues that non-determinism takes more discipline, not less, and every CEO who wants their AI cookies has to eat their broccoli first. Agents in production are finally forcing teams to do the instrumentation work they should have done years ago. They get into Chad Fowler’s Phoenix architectures and the idea that the system, not the code, holds the truth about how software behaves.

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