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55:12Today we're talking with **Kolton Andrus**, the **Founder and CEO of Gremlin**, about what happens to reliability when **AI** is writing most of the code. Kolton helped build the **Chaos Engineering** practice of both **Amazon** and **Netflix** before starting **Gremlin**. In our conversation we talk about **scar tissue**, the intuition engineers develop from being woken up at **3:00 AM** to fix production outages, and how AI doesn't have any of it. It generates code in an afternoon that maybe took a team previously weeks to build, but none of those painful lessons come along for the ride. We dig into why **10x more code** might mean **10x more failures**. The concept of **reliability guardrails**, think **ethical guardrails**, but for keeping your systems up. Why you still have to **test in production** no matter how good your staging environment is? How **Gremlin** is rethinking their product for the world where **agents, not engineers**, are essentially the primary users. And why we're entering a **painful, narrow part of the hourglass** before AI gets good enough to handle all of this on its own.
51:49Today we are talking with Andre Elizondo, the Director of Innovation at Mezmo about their open source agentic harness for SREs called AURA. Mezmo got their start handling observability data at scale. Logs, traces, metrics, the usual stuff. AURA is their answer to a growing problem, as system complexity outpaces humans' ability to make sense of all that data, how do you actually make it actionable for AI agents? We get into their approach to context engineering, essentially making data agent ready before it hits the model. Why they built their own orchestrator in Rust? How they handle memory and self-correction in agent loops? Their take on MCP and where it fits versus Skills and code sandboxing and how the SRE role is evolving as agents become trusted teammates. Visit mezmo.com/aura
53:21Today on the show, we have a special guest — Ashmeet Sidana, the founder of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet started his career as an engineer at some great companies like Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics before founding his own company, getting it acquired, and eventually starting his venture capital firm, Engineering Capital. With his strong engineering background, Ashmeet looks for startups that have a technical insight — something unique that gives them an edge over their competitors. This focus on technical insight sets Engineering Capital apart from other VC firms that often emphasize market insight or distribution insight or some other kind of advantage. We talked about AI, Exponential Engineers, Entrepreneurship, and had a lot of fun.
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