AI Has Not Replaced SREs—It Is Causing Their Skills to Degrade

A SigNoz article points out that after AI takes over 95% of incident response, SREs may instead lose the ability to handle the critical 5% of problems. The article cites Lisanne Bainbridge's 1983 work "Ironies of Automation" as well as research in medicine and aviation: after endoscopists began using AI assistance, their unassisted polyp detection rate fell from 28% to 22%; the FAA has already mandated that pilots log more manual flying hours.