Comment by ottah
24 days ago
I dunno, I don't think in practice SRE or DevOPs are even really different from the people we used to call sys admins (former sysadmin myself). I think the future of mediocre companies is SRE chasing after LLM fires, but I think a competitive business would have a much better strategy for building systems. Humans are still by far the most efficient and generalized reasoners, and putting the energy intensive, brittle ai model in charge of most implementation is setting yourself up to fail.
Former sysadmin and I've been an SRE for >15 years now.
They are very different. If your SREs are spending much of their time chasing fires, they are doing it wrong.
Unfortunately sometimes it's more of a title than a job description. Company's define the job, and call it what ever they feel like.
Right, unfortunately too many people re-brand their ops team as SREs and expect things to be different.