Comment by siliconc0w

IMO SRE works mostly because they exist outside the product engineering organization. They want to help you succeed but if you want to YOLO your launch and move fast and break things they have the option to hand back the pager and find other work. That option is rarely used but the option alone seems to create better than usual incentives.

With Vibecoding I imagine the LLM will get a MCP that allows them to schedule the jobs on Kubernetes or whatever IaaS and a fleet of agents will do the basic troubleshooting or whackamole type activities, leaving only the hard problems for human SRE. Before and after AI, the corporate incentives will always be to ship slop unless there is a counterbalancing force keeping the shipping team accountable to higher standards.