AI for prod: The third wave of AI in software engineering
AI for prod: The third wave of AI in software engineering
AI is changing how software is run in production. Work still lives between tools, incidents are noisy, and teams need a practical path to outcomes. This ebook explains the third wave, workflow-autonomous multi-agent systems, and shows how they cut the orchestration tax, improve investigations, and shift engineers from grunt work to creative work.
What you’ll learn:
Why majority of engineering time is spent between tools to run prod, and how to reduce that tax.
What breaks with LLMs, tool-augmented LLMs, and single agents, and why multi-agent coordination fixes it.
How AI for production changes core workflows, incident investigation, cost optimization, and building on existing systems.
How to assess your maturity across manual, AI-in-tools, and AI-for-production levels, with concrete next steps.
How teams evolve when agents coordinate investigations, preserve knowledge, and act with guardrails.
