The 5 Levels of Self-Driving Production — Eric Schwartz, Traversal

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Eric Schwartz presents a framework for 'self-driving production' addressing the debugging challenges introduced by AI coding agents. The talk explains why observability tools fail at root cause analysis (which is a causal problem, not an observability problem), presents five levels of production autonomy from war rooms to closed-loop fixes, and includes case studies from PepsiCo and American Express. Designed for SREs, platform engineers, and engineering leads looking to automate incident response and reduce troubleshooting time.