AI Didn't Change the Game, It Just Exposed Your Bottlenecks w/ Ganesh Datta (CTO, Cortex)

Every engineering org says they want to improve reliability — but most can't even agree on what "good" looks like. Ganesh Datta, Co-Founder and CTO of Cortex, has spent the better part of a decade helping companies confront that gap.

In this conversation, Ganesh makes the case that platform engineering and SRE are solving the same human problem — earning adoption through influence, not authority — and that the two teams belong on the same user journey. He breaks down why production readiness programs decay the moment you stop automating them, why clear service ownership is the foundation everything else depends on, and why AI hasn't actually changed the playbook: it's just amplifying the bottlenecks you were already ignoring.