AI SRE: what is it, how could it change on-call – and does it work?
& 8220;AI SRE& 8221; is fast becoming a trending term fueled by flashy demos from vendors, but has an AI SRE ever really been on call while engineers slept? Deepdive
Before we start: I’m in San Francisco this week and also next week. On Wed, 4 November, I’m hosting The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged at the iconic SFJazz Club, featuring a rare conversation with Diogo Almeida (creator of Jev & co-inventor of ChatGPT), and Bryan Cantrill (cofounder and CTO of Oxide). It’s free to attend with registration, sign up here.
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In May 2025 at Microsoft’s annual BUILD conference, the tech giant introduced “Azure SRE Agent” with an onstage demo in which an alert fired and the AI SRE Agent went to work on identifying the root cause, and then shipped a fix, all without having to wake up a human dev oncall.
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