Hacker News 热议 · 645 分 · 472 条评论 The first says SRE is the future of all software engineering, that as AI writes more and more code, the humans who remain will be the ones keeping systems alive. The second says AI will devour every tech job alive, SREs included. Neither is particularly useful if you’re an SRE trying to figure out what your Tuesday will look like in 2027. Today’s discussion agenda is not whether AI replaces SREs, but whether AI is quietly making SREs less capable and whether anyone will notice anything before the next novel outage hits. The exact problems that require deep expertise, the exact expertise that atrophies when you stop practising. Now we’re replaying this pattern with AI agents, and the stakes in software systems are only growing. If human SREs (okay, now we have to use adjectives like human 🥹) only engage with Tier 3 incidents, i.e. the novel, never-before-seen outages, where do they build the intuition to handle them? Intuition is usually developed from years of hands-on incident response, pattern recognition built through repetition, and the kind of gut-level understanding of a system that only develops from painfully waking up at the odd hour to solve the bug that brought the system down. For us, this deskilling question is not a rhetorical fad; Eventually, we’ll enable more autonomy but within clear guardrails, and only as trust is earned. Unlike ongoing lore, we believe humans will remain essential for the decisions that matter most, especially those that impact production infrastructure.
Hacker News · 16天前 ·
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