Presentation: Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery

Aaron Erickson: I'm Aaron Erickson. We're going to talk about why it's not all AI, but sometimes it's AI. "Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery", is the name of the talk. Who here has ever had this question? "I know, what if we decided to do some of this with AI?" Has anybody ever had that, and then decided that's a terrible idea? I have all sorts of bad ideas, one of which was something, I know, obviously, GraphQL, terrible idea. Agile, come on, what was that, the 2010s? We all did Agile, and we discovered it was a bad dream or something, maybe this'll become one of those things. Maybe this'll be a new paver stone on this road to hell that is filled with all sorts of good intentions. To that end, let me talk about one thing I built. Before my current life, I worked at this company called Orgspace. We had this idea of what if you could write software to do reorgs? Who has ever done a reorg? Who has ever been subjected to a reorg? Who has ever had a pleasant experience after being subjected to a reorg? No, nobody's had a pleasant experience…