Premise is flawed: SRE is not a throughput problem, it is an accuracy problem.
I'm guessing you're getting downvoted due to dismissive tone, but I think there's truth to this.
Labeling something as "don't escalate" that should have been isn't great. Paying 5x and having to wait 10s instead of 100ms or whatever for a reasoning model (with tools?) is very likely worth it.
Yes and with an incredibly large context and incredibly large domain specific knowledge.
We had an LLM based SRE product from a vendor I won't mention because we had an NDA as our management is sucking them off by trading whitepapers for discounts. It was like a drunk monkey with a wrecking ball. Think we had to pull it in under 2 weeks because it took out multiple production systems and lead to an entire cluster failover.
The meat sacks now know they have job security.