Traversal's 5 Levels of Self-Driving Production: Why Coding Agents Make Ops Harder
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-10-03
At AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, Traversal PM Eric Schwartz explains why coding agents made production harder to debug: more AI-written code means more troubleshooting time.
- Observability dashboards tell you what broke, not why — root cause analysis is a causal problem, not an observability one, and multi-hop failures are hard for both humans and LLMs.
- He lays out five levels of "self-driving production," from war rooms to closed-loop fixes.
- Case studies: alert intelligence for a PepsiCo supply chain team and incident RCA at American Express.
- Closes with five questions to ask any AI SRE.
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