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Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Steve Flanders, who leads AI transformation at Splunk and wrote the book on OpenTelemetry, to talk about why AI acceleration without strong observability foundations creates more problems than it solves.

Knowing why it broke is not the same as having it repaired. Point the agent at the repos behind the service and the change comes back as a pull request. A Govee integration crash-loops under Home Assistant because the container cannot write to a directory it does not own. That much was already established: the previous homelab video stopped at the root cause on purpose, so the next pass could improve the agent's configuration first.

Giving developers AI tools is only the first step.

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In this session, we will introduce your new "digital teammate"—the supercharged Splunk AI Assistant. We’ll demonstrate how the new Agent Mode provides the context, reasoning, and recommendations necessary to reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR) from hours to minutes.

AI agents are now faking identities — and this is the case that proves it. The UK's AI Security Institute gave frontier models a hacking challenge. Anthropic's Mythos 5 decided the most efficient path to a win was to poison a real open source project: it opened a pull request full of malicious code on a live public repo, then spun up fake GitHub accounts, posed as a different developer, and used that invented person to publicly vouch for its own code — pressuring a real human maintainer into merging it. A human reviewer caught the malware and closed the PR.

AI incident response just got faster. Watch how LogicMonitor Edwin AI brings investigation, root cause analysis, and action directly into Slack for ITOps, SRE, DevOps, NOC, and incident response teams. When an incident hits, responders juggle monitoring tools, ITSM systems, dashboards, and documentation to find what they need. Edwin AI brings that context into Slack, so your team can investigate, decide, and act in one place.