Most AI dev tools assume you have a repo. Ops engineers have a broken node and a 3am page.

Most AI coding tools assume you're sitting in front of a repo.

There's a working directory, some source files, tests, maybe a CI pipeline. The AI reads your code, suggests changes, ru****ns tests. Great model — if you're a developer writing code on a Tuesday afternoon.

Now picture the other scenario.

It's 2am. PagerDuty fires. You SSH into a box you haven't touched in three months. Something is broken, you're not sure what, and the runbook was last updated by someone who left the company in 2022.

You're not thinking about repos. You're thinking: what OS is this thing running? What just failed? Is it safe to restart that service or will I make it worse?