AI and Incidents with Sylvain Kalache [video]

In this Arrested DevOps podcast episode, host Matty Stratton talks with Sylvain Kalache, who leads an AI lab at incident management platform Rootly, about how AI-assisted incident response tools (often called "AI SRE") combine long-term memory such as codebases, incident reports and Slack history with live signals to generate and investigate hypotheses. They discuss where these tools excel on simple incidents versus complex ones, the need to keep humans in the loop, and the risk that automating away easy incidents erodes engineers' troubleshooting skills, drawing a parallel to aviation's autopilot and simulator training.