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How low would uptime have to get before you'd consider holding the engineers personally responsible for it?

Why are we holding the engineers accountable and not the CEO? The company isn’t one department. Responsibility should bubble up to the top.

They dont have a CEO ever since their last CEO said that human programming "wasn't going anywhere".

Is human programming going anywhere? I mean sure you’re not literally typing the actual lines of code, but we haven’t done assembly since compilers and transpilers exist.

Personally, all AI has done is add another layer of abstraction where “pseudo code” can be the source input and out comes the compiled program. You still need to think about the design and maintenance.

Agreed. At some point to have to stop hugging your ops team and start firing them.

No, you hire more of them, you give them what they need to do their jobs, and you actually listen to their recommendations. It's not even complicated. It just takes time and money, neither of which companies want to spend on reliability until their customers scream very loud en masse.

Agreed. In fact, keep firing ops until someone gets it done. There's no way your company will build a reputation for not supporting their teams.

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