Automation index

How much of a Site reliability engineer’s job can AI already do?

A runbook and autoscale come earlier. The 3 a.m. incident without taking production down do not.

This percentage does not predict how many people will lose their jobs.

Task comparison

IS WORK OVER?

28%

AI can already do 28% of this job.

#103 / 623

Site reliability engineer

Task weights are our estimates based on O*NET frequency data, not time shares published by O*NET.

The time saving for each task is estimated separately.

Task	Share	AI	Points
SLOs, alerts and the runbook. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	18%	52%	+9.4
Incident, war room and not making it worse. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	16%	22%	+3.5
CI/CD, capacity and the error budget. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	16%	40%	+6.4
Postmortem, toil and automating the repeated. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	16%	28%	+4.5
The product that wants to ship and the SLO that will not allow it. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	18%	14%	+2.5
Not taking production down, and signing the change. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	16%	12%	+1.9
Total	100%		28%

Modelled workweek: 100% · Public evidence: 0% · Estimate: 100% · Confidence: Low

IS WORK OVER?

24%

#269 / 623

Interpreter

Task weights are our estimates based on O*NET frequency data, not time shares published by O*NET.

The time saving for each task is estimated separately.

Task	Share	AI	Points
Prep glossaries, briefings and corpora. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	20%	48%	+9.6
Translate support documents for the event. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	16%	35%	+5.6
Interpret simultaneous or consecutive in the room. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	24%	12%	+2.9
Manage fatigue, booth and handover. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	14%	15%	+2.1
Ethics, confidentiality and live correction. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	14%	14%	+2
Clients, credentials and specialism. Estimate No public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate.	12%	18%	+2.2
Total	100%		24%

Modelled workweek: 100% · Public evidence: 0% · Estimate: 100% · Confidence: Low