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May 30, 2025

Operational intelligence: encoding institutional knowledge into AI workflows

The most valuable AI systems in big infrastructure orgs aren't chatbots — they're institutional memory made executable.

Every infrastructure org has a layer of tribal knowledge that lives in senior engineers' heads — which cluster to check first, which signal matters in which incident class, which TSG step is actually load-bearing. The opportunity isn't replacing that knowledge with AI. It's encoding it so AI can apply it.

(Draft — full post coming soon.)