Engineering in the Age of Agents with Yechezkel Rabinovich

What It Covers

Yechezkel Rabinovich, CTO of Groundcover, explains how eBPF-based observability captures system behavior without code instrumentation, addresses AI-generated code challenges, and approaches root cause analysis in distributed microservices architectures.

Key Questions Answered

• •eBPF Instrumentation: Groundcover uses eBPF sensors to capture logs, metrics, and traces directly from the kernel without modifying application code, providing 100% visibility including unknown dependencies like third-party API calls that developers didn't explicitly instrument.
• •AI Code Review Strategy: With AI generating code at superhuman speed, code review must focus on test quality first, then context-dependent factors like performance for high-throughput systems versus simple input-output validation for low-risk libraries with no side effects.
• •MCP API Design: Effective LLM integration requires restricting API parameters beyond human SDKs, making certain fields required to force proper investigation flow, limiting results to 20 items, and exposing simpler endpoints first to prevent agents from requesting overwhelming data volumes.
• •Bring Your Own Cloud: Groundcover runs entirely within customer cloud accounts, keeping all observability data and AI analysis inside their security perimeter, addressing privacy concerns when LLMs process logs and traces that may contain PII or sensitive architectural information.