# The future of software engineering is SRE

DevFeed: [The future of software engineering is SRE](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-future-of-software-engineering-is-sre-37646.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://swizec.com/blog/the-future-of-software-engineering-is-sre>)

Author: hi@swizec.com (Swizec Teller)

Published: 2026-01-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Swizec Teller](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/swizec-teller.md>)

Topics: [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [SRE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sre.md>), [future of software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/future-of-software.md>), [agentic-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agentic-coding.md>), [No-code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/no-code.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agentic-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-coding.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [macros](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/macros.md>), [no-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/no-code.md>), [operational-excellence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operational-excellence.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that as code generation becomes cheaper, software engineering will increasingly center on SRE and operational excellence. It emphasizes that the difficult part is maintaining services as systems and business requirements change over time, reliably and at scale.

## Source excerpt

When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.