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73. Agentic AI Spells the End of Dial Twiddlers
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You aren’t in the business of twiddling the dials, even though the dials may still be important. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Guy Currier, Jay Cuthrell, and Alastair Cooke. Knowledge of all the dials and controls has historically been a defining characteristic of infrastructure experts. The introduction of infrastructure as a service, then as code, and policy as code have shifted focus to more abstracted controls. Do these abstractions reduce the value of knowing every feature and setting, or eliminate the value of technology specialists? Generative AI and business-as-code may spell the end of the dial twiddlers. Optimizing every setting at every level in an infrastructure and application is probably not valuable to business, but there are still places where maximum business value comes from detailed knowledge of those dials.
Host
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead
Panelists:
Guy Currier, Chief Analyst, Visible Impact, Part of the Futurum Group
Jay Cuthrell, Chief Product Officer, NexusTek
Follow the Tech Field Day Podcast on X/Twitter or on Bluesky and use the Hashtag #TFDPodcast to join the discussion. Listen to more episodes on the podcast page of the website.
Follow Tech Field Day for more information on upcoming and current event coverage on X/Twitter, on Bluesky, and on LinkedIn, or visit our website.
324 episodes
Manage episode 503980607 series 1204875
You aren’t in the business of twiddling the dials, even though the dials may still be important. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Guy Currier, Jay Cuthrell, and Alastair Cooke. Knowledge of all the dials and controls has historically been a defining characteristic of infrastructure experts. The introduction of infrastructure as a service, then as code, and policy as code have shifted focus to more abstracted controls. Do these abstractions reduce the value of knowing every feature and setting, or eliminate the value of technology specialists? Generative AI and business-as-code may spell the end of the dial twiddlers. Optimizing every setting at every level in an infrastructure and application is probably not valuable to business, but there are still places where maximum business value comes from detailed knowledge of those dials.
Host
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead
Panelists:
Guy Currier, Chief Analyst, Visible Impact, Part of the Futurum Group
Jay Cuthrell, Chief Product Officer, NexusTek
Follow the Tech Field Day Podcast on X/Twitter or on Bluesky and use the Hashtag #TFDPodcast to join the discussion. Listen to more episodes on the podcast page of the website.
Follow Tech Field Day for more information on upcoming and current event coverage on X/Twitter, on Bluesky, and on LinkedIn, or visit our website.
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