About this podcast

In this compelling interview, Anish Agarwal, co-founder and CEO of Traversal, delves into the revolutionary shift where AI is rapidly replacing human coding, leading to an era where no single team can fully comprehend vast codebases. He argues that while AI accelerates software creation, it also introduces unprecedented challenges in troubleshooting and maintaining system reliability. Traversal, his AI-powered observability and site reliability platform, steps in to solve this critical problem. The company leverages AI to automatically analyze logs, metrics, and traces, pinpointing the root cause of failures, proactively detecting anomalies, and even recommending or applying automated fixes. Anish highlights the immense cost of downtime, exemplified by major outages like the AWS incident, and demonstrates how Traversal drastically reduces time to resolution for large organizations like Digital Ocean. Discover Anish's journey from MIT and Columbia, his fascination with AI's creative potential, and how Traversal, backed by $48 million in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, is pioneering solutions for the future of software in an AI-driven world.