# AI — Sylvain Kalache

URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/ai

My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about AI.

## Selected work

- [AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate.](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-productivity-and-incident-rates-devopsdays-denver-2026.md) (2026-09-22; DevOpsDays Denver): Speaking at the 10th annual DevOpsDays Rockies about how AI-assisted coding boosts developer productivity while increasing incident rates — and what reliability teams need to do about it.
- [10x more code 20x more incidents?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/signals-conference-reliability-in-the-age-of-ai.md) (2026-09-10; Signals Conference): Speaking at Signals Conference, a curated single-track conference bringing together experts from SRE, MLOps, AIOps, and Data communities to discuss reliability challenges in the AI era.
- [More Code, More Incidents? Staying Reliable When AI Writes the Code](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/more-code-more-incidents-staying-reliable-when-ai-writes-the-code.md) (2026-07-08; Incident Fest): Speaking on the Incident Fest Main Stage about staying reliable as AI-assisted development increases the rate at which software is created.
- [AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate.](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-made-developers-25-more-productive-it-also-tripled-our-incident-rate.md) (2026-06-09; AI DevSummit): At AI DevSummit New York: how AI-assisted coding is reshaping software delivery — the productivity gains, the surge in incident rates, and what reliability teams need to do about it.
- [The Software Leaders Uncensored Podcast](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-software-leaders-uncensored-podcast.md) (2026-03-30; Software Leaders Uncensored): A candid conversation on software leadership, reliability engineering, and the evolving role of AI in modern engineering teams.
- [How AI is Changing Incident Response (SRE Deep Dive)](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-ai-is-changing-incident-response-sre-deep-dive.md) (2026-03-28; The Rollback Café): From faster detection to smarter debugging — where AI delivers practical value in incident response, its limitations in production environments, and how teams can integrate AI while maintaining reliability standards.
- [From Vibes to Outages: When AI Writes the Code You Debug](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/from-vibes-to-outages-when-ai-writes-the-code-you-debug.md) (2026-03-19; Conf42): LLM-assisted development introduces hard-to-trace bugs, AI-generated tests that mirror flawed logic, and hallucinated dependencies. Exploring operational consequences and actionable strategies from AI-powered incident tools to incident vibing.

[All work](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/index.md)