Whitney Lee
- talk - Technical Track - Developer Experience
How to Trust a Liar: Instrumenting AI Execution with OpenTelemetry
Building an automated engineering journal sounds straightforward enough. Git commits provide facts, AI adds intelligent context, and you get queryable documentation about the history of your project without manual work. Except in development, the AI assistant lies. Confidently.
When debugging breaks down because your AI assistant hallucinates, OpenTelemetry provides the observability needed to understand what actually happened versus what your AI claimed happened.
The session follows Commit Story, an AI-augmented engineering journal, through authentic debugging disasters, using live demos to show how these lies could have been caught sooner. This talk will explore traces of commit-triggered AI calls, teach techniques to verify response trustworthiness, and share guardrails that help prevent AI deception in the first place.
About Whitney Lee
Whitney is a kind and welcoming human who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, she has created and delivered two KubeCon keynotes, a VMware Explore keynote, and countless fun, funny, and informative community conference keynotes. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on her YouTube channel, she co-hosts the streaming show You Choose! - a 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure'-style journey through the CNCF landscape, she is one of the hosts of Cloud Native Live on the CNCF YouTube channel, and she co-hosts the podcast Software Defined Interviews.