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Your Questions About AI-Assisted Development Answered

We recently hosted a webinar on AI-assisted development with DORA, and the audience had a lot of questions—far more than we could get to in an hour. I picked out six that get at the stuff people are wrestling with day to day. These aren't the easy questions, and I don't think there are necessarily easy answers, but I've spent the past year building and shipping with AI coding tools and observing (literally) what happens when that code hits production. Here's what I have.

How LLMs can help boost productivity

Learn how large language models (LLMs) are transforming productivity in business, coding, research, and daily workflows. Discover practical ways to use AI tools to automate tasks and improve efficiency. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

How AI lets you talk to your company's data and get answers instantly

In this conversation recorded at Elastic’s New York office, three product leaders discuss how AI agents are transforming enterprise software. The discussion features Steve Kearns (general manager, Search solutions at Elastic), Mike Nichols (general manager, Security solutions at Elastic), and Baha Azarmi (general manager, Observability at Elastic). They explain how Elastic Agent Builder allows teams to interact with their data using natural language instead of complex queries.

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Diskless Apache Kafka

Aiven put Diskless Kafka through 2,200 logical hours of chaos testing using Antithesis. Here's how it held up. Testing is a necessary pillar in any software development lifecycle. At the same time, it's a fundamentally incomplete process - a cat-and-mouse game. You can't test what you can't imagine and distributed systems have a nasty habit of producing failures that no one on the team imagined.

Transform or Fade: What 2026's Booming Digital Economy is Teaching Us

That is the defining business tension of 2026. A vanguard of roughly 12% of global enterprises, per PwC's 29th Global CEO Survey of 4,454 chief executives, has managed to deliver both revenue growth and cost reductions from AI simultaneously. These organizations are not just ahead. They are structurally pulling away. For everyone else, the 56% of CEOs who report no significant financial benefit from AI despite sustained investment, the clock is compounding against them.

Meet the new Bits AI SRE: Deeper reasoning, twice as fast

When we announced Bits AI SRE at DASH 2025, we introduced an autonomous SRE agent that investigates alerts the moment they trigger. Bits AI SRE reads the same telemetry data as your team, understands your architecture, and follows your runbooks to identify likely root causes before you even open your laptop. It’s your AI teammate that’s always on call.