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title: "Deterministic by design: Why AI doesn’t get to freestyle your pipeline"
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[ All Podcasts ](https://www.sumologic.com/resources?_resource_type=podcast)# Deterministic by design: Why AI doesn’t get to freestyle your pipeline

### Adam White

Sr. Director, Technical Marketing

### Ben Cody

SVP Product Management

### Zoe Hawkins

Director, Content Marketing

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On this episode of Masters of Data, we sit down with Ben Cody, SVP Product Management at Sumo Logic, to work out what data pipeline management means now that moving data from point A to point B is the easy part. Ben draws a sharp line between the two jobs AI can and cannot do here, arguing that AI should generate the configurations and flag the gaps while the pipeline itself stays deterministic and runs the same way every time. We also get into toxic data, why telemetry volumes are outrunning budgets, and the accidental coining of “vibelines.” Security and SRE teams watching agent traffic inflate their ingest bill will find plenty here on shaping what they keep without giving up coverage.

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