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AI Still Can't Replace On-Call Engineers — Here's Why That Matters for Tech and Crypto Infrastructure

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A new benchmark from Datadog called ARFBench reveals that AI systems still fall short of human engineers when it comes to diagnosing and resolving real-world outages. Despite rapid advances in AI capabilities, the complexity and unpredictability of production incidents remain a significant challenge for automated systems.

WHY IT MATTERS

Think of an on-call engineer like a doctor in an emergency room — when something breaks in a complex system, they have to quickly figure out what's wrong and fix it under pressure. This benchmark shows that AI, despite all the buzz, still can't do that job reliably. For crypto, this matters because blockchains, exchanges, and DeFi apps are complex systems that can lose users millions of dollars if something goes wrong. It means the industry still needs skilled humans to keep things running, and anyone promising fully AI-managed crypto infrastructure is getting ahead of reality.

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