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Shabih Syed
VP, Product Marketing
Marketing & Growth Leader with 10+ years of experience driving revenue, product adoption, and global marketing at B2B2C companies (LaunchDarkly, Square, Datadog, Redis).
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Innovation Week Day 2: Observability for AI, and Observability With AI
AI is reshaping the SDLC in two directions at once. AI-generated code is shipping faster and with less human supervision than ever before, while agents and LLMs are running directly in production, where they behave very differently from traditional software: non-deterministic, with a wider blast radius than any single function or component, with no stack trace to catch when something goes wrong.

Innovation Week Day 1: The SDLC Is Collapsing, and Observability Has Never Mattered More
Day 1 of Innovation Week was about how software gets validated, where observability fits, and the problems that have always been hard but are now genuinely urgent with AI part of the software development lifecycle.

What the 2025 DORA Report Teaches Us About Observability and Platform Quality
The 2025 DORA State of AI-Assisted Software Development Report delivers a critical insight for technology leaders: AI is fundamentally an amplifier, not a solution. It magnifies the strengths of high-performing organizations with robust observability while exposing the dysfunctions of struggling ones.