Ryan sits down with Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, to chat about why AI coding agents have made writing code easier but running it safely in production harder, why production failures are really caused by interactions between systems and not just the code itself, and how teams can troubleshoot more effectively when traditional observability tools are not enough for agentic AI workflows.Episode notes:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.traversal.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Traversal</a> is an AI-powered autonomous SRE for complex software systems with automatic triage alerts, root cause investigation, and incident prevention at petabyte scale.&nbsp;Connect with Anish on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anish-agarwal-io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> or reach out to him at  <a href="mailto:anish@traversal.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">anish@traversal.com</a>.&nbsp;Our sixteenth Annual Developer Survey is now open and we want to hear your thoughts on all things software. <a href="https://take.survey.stackoverflow.co/jfe/form/SV_4GHunpL3IfJ3rRc?utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=outreach&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2026&utm_content=launch-survey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Take the survey now</a>!Congrats to user <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/276052/aioobe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">aioobe</a> on winning a Populist badge for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7511279/javascript-a-b-c-statements" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Javascript a=b=c statements</a>.See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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