Reading up on site-reliability-engineering

As AI makes coding cheaper, operational excellence and reliability engineering become the key differentiator, shifting software engineering's focus from writing code to keeping it running.

As AI-generated code reduces the cost of writing software, the value of software engineering will shift to operational excellence, making SRE the most critical discipline.

The author demonstrates Claude Code running in a Kubernetes cronjob as an autonomous on-call agent that monitors pods, applies hotfixes, and documents incidents.