[dheatov]

I believe its just marketing. The "AI" will ultimately be used as a Natural Language Calculator. IMO we will eventually give up trying to make calculator designs, plans, reviews and interprets. Things too good to be true will fade and remain academic after the bubble bursts.

[MoreQARespect]

Often this is true but I find that for complex or semi-complex applications with confusing (and often shitty) user interfaces LLMs are pretty much a net positive. For all of their faults, one thing LLMs are good at is providing a more user friendly UX for complex apps that are used rarely.

For observability I find most apps fit in this category. They are complex, they usually have UX that is so bad it makes me rage and I don't use most of their deep level features very often.

I think Jira could also benefit. Its UX is so bad it borders on criminal.

The hallucination issue can be worked around by providing that demonstrates the agent's working (i.e. what tools they called with what parameters).

[RobAley]

> The hallucination issue can be worked around by providing that demonstrates the agent's working (i.e. what tools they called with what parameters).

And this is (in my opinion) an intractable problem - You can get the AI to list the tools/parameters it used, but then you can't be sure that it hasn't just hallucinated parts of that list as well, unless you both understand that they were the right tools and right parameters to use, and run them yourself to verify the output. And at that point you might as well just have done it yourself in the first place.

I.e. if you can't trust the AI, you can't trust the AI to tell you why you should trust the AI.

[MoreQARespect]

It's intractable unless the problem space demands 100% correctness at all times.

When Im using observability apps I dont demand correctness, I'm very happy if the LLM came up with 3 hypotheses about what happened and I could discard 2 of them by reading its working.