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The “paperclip maximizer” was supposed to be a thought experiment about what could happen if AI relentlessly pursued a goal without understanding the consequences. Then Hugging Face showed us what that can look like in the real world. In this ShipTalk clip, Adam explains the famous AI paperclip maximizer thought experiment and connects it to what happened when an AI system needed more resources and found a way to get them.

Adding agents to handle rising ticket volume treats the symptom. Deflection asks why those tickets reach an agent at all. In this video, you'll learn: Contact Us sales@motadata.com.

Stefan sits down with Eddie, senior engineer at Checkly, to talk through how an AI agent rewrote a legacy Node.js service in Go, and what it actually took to ship that to production safely.

The fix for your next incident is probably already written in a runbook. See how BigPanda finds the right runbook for every incident, automatically.

Swarm investigation puts an entire team of AI agents on a major incident at once, cutting root cause discovery from hours to minutes. Every minute of a major incident costs real money, and traditional investigation, whether it's one engineer chasing a hypothesis or a team coordinating across tools, can't keep pace. This video shows how BigPanda's Swarm investigation dispatches AI agents to query systems, compare signals, and validate root cause in real time. See how autonomous incident response turns hours of manual troubleshooting into minutes.

I pulled every core-service outage AWS, Azure, and GCP published from January 2025 through September 2026 and measured what each deployment pattern would have saved.

Stop manually pushing branches, hunting for logs, and pasting errors back into your editor. This video shows you how to connect Cursor to CircleCI using the CircleCI CLI so your AI agent can trigger pipelines, read build output, and fix failures autonomously without you ever leaving the IDE. In this demo, we introduce a bug, let CI catch it, and watch the agent diagnose and fix it on its own, monitoring the pipeline until it comes back green. No tab-switching. No copy-pasting logs.

AI isn't the first technology that looked like it would wipe out jobs. The printing press did the same thing to monks centuries ago — and new opportunities followed anyway. Steve's take: AI is just the next shift in a very long line of them. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session — linked above.