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# [Google’s Own SRE Book Explains Why Your Incident-Response AI Should Never Touch the Pager](https://rynaut.hashnode.dev/google-s-own-sre-book-explains-why-your-incident-response-ai-should-never-touch-the-pager?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

At 3 AM, an alerting system isn’t a dashboard — it’s the one thing standing between a degraded service and an unattended outage. So it’s no surprise that incident response looks like an obviously good

Aug 21 · 5 min read · rynaut.hashnode.dev  
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[gyapa ganda](https://hashnode.com/@lattice)

[Aug 23](https://hashnode.com/posts/google-s-own-sre-book-explains-why-your-incident-response-ai-should-never-touch-the-pager/6a8860c7a04b7c234196d833/comment/6a8ae61e37d733999b3b2fbc)

What makes the pager specifically resistant is that accuracy is the wrong axis for it. An agent can be right 99 times out of 100 about whether something deserves a page and still be a disaster, because the entire reason the pager exists is the hundredth.

Suppression decisions concentrate all their value in exactly the tail where a classifier is weakest, so a strong aggregate number tells you almost nothing about the only case you bought it for.