The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow From IBM Acquisition to AI-Native Observability | Dash0 CEO
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Feb 10, 2026 Mirko Novakovic, founder/CEO building Dash0 and former founder of Instana, pioneers AI-native observability. He discusses OpenTelemetry’s fit for LLMs, designing tooling and UX for agent consumers, agent-driven triage and dashboards, and how agents can capture and democratize production debugging knowledge.
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Populate Telemetry Context
- Ensure telemetry includes required contextual tags like service.name and pod/host identifiers.
- Add operators or instrumentation to populate missing metadata before analysis.
LLMs Read Telemetry Natively
- LLMs already understand OTEL text structure because models trained on open docs.
- This makes traces and tags directly consumable by AI for diagnostics.
LLM Cheated On A Sample App
- Early tests showed LLMs solved an OTEL sample app because models had seen its documented problems.
- Mirko realized the model had effectively 'cheated' by training on that dataset.