Nobody has a use for this, and anybody who can look at this website and work out what it's for is kidding themselves. Even the demo gif playing just has them pausing a task and resuming the task.
https://github.com/google/ax/blob/main/docs/concepts.md
>A Model is not a model. It is a named model configuration: ...
Remember kids, a model is not a model.
it feels like the kind of interface a devops engineer who hates AI would design
Fully agreed. Google just can't stop losing.
If there's a criticism here, it's that they don't mention k8s right up front. It's completely opaque what this tool is. "Orchestration" can mean literally anything.
The web page presents ax as a typical developer tool, but it's actually not for developers.