Gergely Orosz questions whether AI SRE tools will make system reliability worse
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Gergely Orosz says AI SRE startups aim to automate on-call work so developers are not woken at 2am.
He argues that the current approach, where engineers do extra work so systems stay up and nobody gets paged, depends on feedback loops. In his view, replacing those loops with more AI could make reliability much worse. The report is a single post on X from Orosz, and it gives no data or examples of AI SRE tools failing or succeeding.
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