Type Conversion: What Changes (and What Doesn’t) When You Start a New SRE Job

Pilots have a specific term for moving from one airplane to another: a “type conversion”. Not “learning to fly” again — you already know how to fly. It’s the process of taking everything you already know and re-mapping it onto a new machine that does the same job with a different cockpit.
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AI and SRE: The Same Force Cuts Both Ways

I’ve spent most of my career in the “in-between” role — the one that sits between software engineering and operations, making sure the systems that carry the weight of the business stay up, stay fast, and stay honest about what they’re actually doing. Listen, follow the data, don’t do anything you can’t undo quickly. That’s been the job for a couple of decades.

In the last year, the job changed more than it did in the previous ten.
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