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- Brendan Gregg identifies two types of AI agents: AI Brendan (pattern matching for flame graphs/eBPF) and Virtual Brendan (trained on his publications but limited to ~15% of his job).
- Commercial AI autotuners face pricing challenges, as customers may pay for one instance and copy tuning changes across fleets.
- Secret tuning changes are impractical to hide; engineers can easily uncover them, and such secrecy risks blame during outages.
- Published works are an incomplete and dated snapshot, missing half of Gregg's experience and real-time industry changes.