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Re:Launch HN: Parity (YC S24) – AI for on-call engineers wor... by solatic on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:44PM (#41361019)
> we think SREs will still find it useful

There are two kinds of outages: people being idiots and legit hard-to-track-down bugs. SREs worth their salt don't need help with the former. They may find an AI bot somewhat useful to find root cause quicker, but usually not so valuable as to justify paying the kind of price you would need to charge to make your business viable to VCs. As for the latter, good luck collecting enough training data.

Otherwise, you're selling a self-driving car to executives who want the chauffeur without the salary. Sounds like a great idea, until you think about the tail cases. Then you wish you had a chauffeur (or picked up driving skills yourself).

Maybe you'll find a market, but as an SRE, I wouldn't want to sell it.

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