[rollcat]

> I see it as analogous to how higher-level languages abstracts machine code. When it was a newer technology, people absolutely needed to debug and analyze the "magic" but as the space has matured that's becoming less and less common.

The fundamental difference is that you can keep analyzing a program in isolation as much as you like. Infrastructure is a living organism - if you shoot it in the head, you can't copy-paste an old working version over it; you have an outage.

> until maybe an AI can

Why is the solution to every problem always more layers, and never less? We understand running production infrastructure far better than we understand AI.

It's not that I don't appreciate ML/AI - it's fairly impressive what it can do, given you keep nudging it in the right direction - but I would never delegate unsupervised authority to it.