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The fulcrum of Weakly's argument is that agents should stay in their lane, offering helpful Clippy-like suggestions and letting humans drive. But what exactly is the value in having humans grovel through logs to isolate anomalies and create hypotheses for incidents? AI tools are fundamentally better at this task than humans are, for the same reason that computers are better at playing chess. What Weakly seems to be doing is laying out a bright line between advising engineers and actually performing actions --- any kind of action, other than suggestions (and only those suggestions the human driver would want, and wouldn't prefer to learn and upskill on their own). That's not the right line. There are actions AI tools shouldn't perform autonomously (I certainly wouldn't let one run a Terraform apply), but there are plenty of actions where it doesn't make sense to stop them. The purpose of incident resolution is to resolve incidents. reply reply reply Sounds like heuristics added on top o
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