AI SRE: what is it, how could it change on-call – and does it work?
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The Pragmatic Engineer examines the rise of "AI SRE" tools, which use AI agents to speed up incident investigation and on-call response, mainly within Slack. Interest has grown because AI-driven code changes have roughly doubled deployment frequency at many companies, raising incident rates.