Dev Interrupted Foresight Over Firefighting: Being Proactive in a Reactive World | Rootly's JJ Tang
May 13, 2025
JJ Tang, Co-founder and CEO of Rootly, dives into the shift from reactive to proactive incident response strategies. He emphasizes the power of AI and the often-overlooked significance of customer empathy in modern infrastructure. JJ discusses how organizations can build trust and ensure reliability in their systems, while navigating the integration of new technologies. He shares insights on the cultural shifts necessary for fostering proactive reliability and the common pitfalls leaders face in this dynamic landscape.
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Building Trust in AI Products
- Building AI-enabled products requires not just integration but deep understanding of AI's power and pitfalls.
- Transparency and safety build customer trust and evolve a company from AI wrapper to AI-native.
Embed AI Culture Through Sharing
- Hold bi-weekly meetings for leaders to present AI tool experiments to embed AI learning in culture.
- Encourage the whole organization to adopt an AI-first mindset by sharing AI tool successes and failures.
AI Revolutionizing Incident Response
- AI can transform incident response from reactive firefighting to proactive root cause prediction and resolution.
- LLMs can replicate expert SRE knowledge instantly to keep pace with increasing system complexity and new errors.