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Programming · by Mateo Ramírez · 2026-10-30

"AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them" — does this match your on-call experience?

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The argument: when the copilot suggests the fix during an incident, juniors never build the mental model of the system, so when the AI is wrong at 3am nobody knows why. I've seen a bit of this. How are your teams keeping debugging skills sharp?

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Maya Williams · 12 likes

same argument was made about stack overflow in 2012 and we turned out fine-ish

Rohan Mehta · 8 likes

the problem isn't the tool, it's that postmortems stopped asking 'why did that fix work'

Curious Marauder · 2 likes

we do monthly 'no AI' game days. people hate it the first time and love it by the third

Grace Parker · 8 likes

stealing this idea for our team