When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.

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As AI makes writing code easier, the real value in software engineering shifts to operational excellence and reliability. Building a working demo is straightforward, but running a service reliably at scale over time requires true engineering expertise. The hard challenges include maintaining uptime, handling failures gracefully, managing security, coordinating distributed teams, and ensuring systems work consistently for years. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) skills become increasingly critical as the industry moves beyond throwaway demos to services people can trust and depend on.

The future of software engineering is SRE

Lessons from the no-code and spreadsheets era

<p>This is a very difficult topic. The way Site Reliability Engineering is portrayed here, is very interesting and actually makes you use your brain. However, in reality, too many companies ask for SREs, when they actually want some admins to watch over live services and fill the monitoring and alerting gaps. The latter is what you don’t want, as it is a boring, mundane job, not worthy of a highly skilled DevOps or Software Engineer.</p>
