I keep noticing that the way AI SREs and coding agents are sold is fairly different: coding assistants are framed as augmenting engineers and are given names, and AI SREs are named “AI SRE” and generally marketed as a good way to make sure nobody is distracted by unproductive work. I don’t think giving names and anthropomorphizing components or agents is a good thing to do, but the picture that is painted by what is given a name and the framing brought up for tech folks is evocative....
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