AI-Driven Change Management: Making Deployments Safer
This is Day 6 of our series “Agentic SRE: When AI Takes the Pager”. We’re exploring how AI agents are rewriting the rules of reliability, one domain at a time. “Don’t deploy on Friday.” It’s the oldest rule in the book. Why? Because historically, change is the single biggest predictor of instability. Google’s data suggests that roughly 70% of outages begin with a binary or configuration change [1]. For two decades, we’ve fought this with better testing, CI/CD pipelines, and rigorous code reviews. But the fundamental problem remained: we were pushing code faster than we could verify its safety. ...