AI as signal router, not signal generator
SYSTEM MATERIAL
monitoring · logs
test results
PR · commit history
incidents · runbooks
context · worklog
too much to hold at once
situated context
what's relevant right now
structural gaps
what you might be missing
pattern surface
here's what the system is doing
signal triage
which of these matters
design judgment
what does this mean for the system
architectural decision
what we do next
ENGINEER
judgment · ownership · intent
AI
routes · does not decide
the engineer decides what the signal means — the AI decides what to surface
Sarkar, TEDAI Vienna 2025 — applied to the development lifecycle