The future of software engineering is SRE
Summary
Swizec Teller argues that the future of software engineering is SRE and operational excellence. He contrasts the appeal of greenfield demos with the necessity of running reliable services at scale, using the no-code/spreadsheet era as a cautionary example, and poses a series of questions about uptime, defect rates, recovery, dependencies, security, and trust. The piece emphasizes that writing code is easy, but maintaining reliable services over time is the real hard work.