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Episode Synopsis
Welcome to the Pieces AI productivity podcast, where we dig into how experts use AI to be more productive, as well as geeking out in general on different AI topics.🔎 In this episode, Jim is joined by Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Honeycomb and observability geek. Phillip talks about observability, and how much of an impact bad observability can have on teams. Jim and Phillip then talk about how AI can try to help with adding observability, and how that really a lot of the time the problems are best solved by humans - as they understand the constraints of systems better than an AI can. For example, can an AI developer tool add the right logging, but if it does will it add too much and cost a fortune on your observability platform side? All this and more in this episode.🌐 Links:Connect with Phillip on LinkedInFollow Phillip on BlueSkyHoneycombOpen Telemetry👉 Try Pieces for free: https://pieces.app💡 Learn more about Pieces features: https://pieces.app/featuresConnect with Pieces:X: https://x.com/getpiecesBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/getpieces.bsky.socialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getpieces/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getpieces/Discord: https://pieces.app/discordIn this episode:0:00:00 - Intro0:03:38 - Phillips initial thoughts in AI in coding from 20220:04:44 - Can I help spot patterns in observability data0:13:12 - A future where AI can preemptively find incidents0:19:35 - How can AI developer tools help add observability to your code?0:23:51 - AI is great for adding decent logging and metrics to legacy apps0:26:43 - AI doesn’t understand your business context and constraints like cost0:28:22 - AI developer tools lack context of decisions in collaboration tools (unlike Pieces!)0:31:35 - Could AI agents ensure observability is included in your code?0:32:46 - Humans are more important than AI0:37:42 - Adding code to Honeycomb that AI would fail to do right0:42:34 - AI cannot replace junior engineers because where would senior engineers come from?
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