{"podcast":{"title":"Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers","slug":"software-engineering-radio","podcast_index_feed_id":1372513,"rss_url":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/se-radio","website_url":"https://www.se-radio.net","image_url":"http://media.computer.org/sponsored/podcast/se-radio/se-radio-logo-1400x1475.jpg","author":"SE-Radio Team (team@se-radio.net)","episode_count":724,"summary":"Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. Every 10 days, a new episode is published that covers all topics software engineering. Episodes are either tutorials on a specific topic, or an interview with a well-known character from the software engineering world. All SE Radio episodes are original content — we do not record conferences or talks given in other venues. Each episode comprises two speakers to ensure a lively listening experience. SE Radio is an independent and non-commercial organization.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-engineering-radio"},"episode":{"title":"SE Radio 719: Birol Yildiz on Building an Agentic AI SRE","slug":"se-radio-719-birol-yildiz-on-building-an-agentic-ai-sre","published_at":"2026-05-06T20:54:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-engineering-radio/se-radio-719-birol-yildiz-on-building-an-agentic-ai-sre","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-engineering-radio","url":"https://se-radio.net/2026/05/se-radio-719-birol-yildiz-on-building-an-agentic-ai-sre/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/seradio/719-birol-yildiz-agentic-ai-sre.mp3?dest-id=23379","summary":"Birol Yildiz, CEO and co-founder of iLert, joins host Kanchan Shringi to explore how iLert built an AI SRE — an autonomous agent for handling production incidents — and what the experience revealed about building AI agents in the real world. Birol explains why incident response is a fundamentally agentic problem, where the unpredictability of novel incidents makes rule-based runbooks insufficient and reasoning models essential. He describes how the AI SRE evolved from an early browser-based approach to its current architecture, built around two key ingredients: reasoning models and the Model Context Protocol. The conversation examines the four layers of the AI SRE in depth: an orchestration layer that routes requests and abstracts model providers; a knowledge layer built on plain text memory and agentic search rather than vector databases; an evaluation framework based on recorded live investigations replayed against new model versions; and a human-in-the-loop constraint layer. The episode concludes with practical advice for teams building agents: own your context completely, avoid off-the-shelf frameworks that obscure what enters the model, and get out of the way of the reasoning model rather than over-prescribing its steps.","meta_description":"Birol Yildiz, CEO and co-founder of iLert, joins host Kanchan Shringi to explore how iLert built an AI SRE — an autonomous agent for handling production i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3237,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/software-engineering-radio/episodes/se-radio-719-birol-yildiz-on-building-an-agentic-ai-sre/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-engineering-radio/se-radio-719-birol-yildiz-on-building-an-agentic-ai-sre.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}