> AI SRE in 2026 is what DevOps Anomaly Detection was in 2015 — bold claims backed by huge marketing budgets, but lacking independent verification. There are stories of SaaS vendors abruptly killing the observability stack. Our results mirror ClickHouse’s findings: while LLMs can assist, they lack the capabilities of a skilled SRE.

The key is LLMs can assist. It would be nice if they went farther into this, and seen how much more quickly a human that wrote a complex prompt, or went back and forth with a coding agent, could do the tasks compared to an unassisted human. I'm confident that it's at a level that already has profound implications for SRE. And the current level of getting it right with a simple prompt is still impressive.