InfoQ - Languages - Presentations https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Languages Presentations feed Presentation: From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry https://www.infoq.com/presentations/otel-slm-ai/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Languages-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/otel-slm-ai/en/mediumimage/benomahony-medium-1783500827260.jpeg"/><p>Ben O'Mahony discusses building custom AI-powered Language Server Protocols (LSPs) that go beyond standard rule-based checkers. He explains how to instrument AI agents natively with OpenTelemetry to track concrete user actions (accepting, dismissing, or regenerating code fixes) as implicit labels, creating a continuous data flywheel to distill frontier capabilities into cheaper, local SLMs.</p> <i>By Ben O'Mahony</i> Artificial Intelligence Telemetry QCon AI 2025 Transcripts AI, ML & Data Engineering presentation Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:17:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/otel-slm-ai/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Languages-presentations Ben O'Mahony 2026-07-17T13:17:00Z /presentations/otel-slm-ai/en