What Brendan Gregg thinks about AI agents

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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27 Nov 2025

Our readingAI agents trained on an expert's published work can only automate a small fraction of that expert's actual job.

Their wordsThese would only automate about 15% of what I do as a performance engineer, and will go out of date if I'm not training it to follow industry changes.

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