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Here is the map of the territory. AI is a broad field; the part this docs uses lives several layers down inside it. Keep this picture in your head — we will refer back to it for the next chapters.
AI Architecture
The top box is the whole field. Notice that Symbolic AI — hand-written rules — is AI too, and it is exactly the kind of system you already build when you write an Alertmanager routing tree. The newer, learned approaches are nested inside Machine Learning. This docs operates in the innermost box, Large Language Models, and spends later parts on the lower diagram: an agent that puts an LLM in a loop with your tools.
Last modified on June 8, 2026