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December 17, 2027
In 14 monthsYou spend all day instrumenting code just to watch it break.
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auto-instruments your entire monolith in seconds
You wire up tracing, logs, and metrics across distributed systems to debug software performance. Then you configure endless dashboards.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still explain why the context propagation died in that one legacy service.
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Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Sensors map your entire microservice dependency graph automatically.
Month 3
Agents inject instrumentation code during build time without human input.
Month 6
Machine learning identifies root causes before latency actually spikes.
Month 10
Dashboards generate themselves based on actual traffic patterns.
Month 14 · D-Day
Human access to the observability backend is permanently revoked.
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Time spent arguing about sampling rates
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