Where is SRE going? I've been watching the trends closely. Here's my best guess for the next 5 years.
Trend 1: AI becomes the default copilot
Not replacing SREs. Sitting next to them. Every major incident response tool will have AI built in — not as a gimmick, but as the default way you interact. Log queries written by natural language. Post-mortems drafted automatically. Runbooks generated from historical incidents.
The SREs who adapt first get 2-3x productivity gains. The ones who resist get left behind.
Trend 2: Observability consolidation
