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? These are two fundamentally different workflows. But almost every AI terminal tool I've seen is built for the first one. The 30 minutes nobody builds for There's a ton of tooling for the world before you log into the box: Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, incident.io, runbooks, dashboards. All useful. No complaints. But there's this practical 30-minute window after you SSH in where you're basically doing archaeology with journalctl and grep. You check systemd. You look at disk. You read logs that were clearly written by someone who hated future-you. You copy-paste terminal output into Slack so your teammate can squint at it from a different timezone. This is where I think AI could actually help. Not by replacing Grafana. Not by building another dashboard. Just by being present in the shell while you're debugging. Please, for the love of uptime, don't replace my shell I've seen a few AI terminal projects that basically build an entire new terminal experience from scratch. New keybindings, new UI, new everything. Here's the thing: ops people have muscle memory. We have aliases we wrote in 2019 and forgot about. We have tmux configs we'd defend with our lives. We SSH through jump hosts with key forwarding chains that barely work but have worked for years so nobody touches them. If your AI tool requires me to abandon all of