--- title: Reliability Lessons From the Edges of SREday NYC | daily.dev description: A conference recap from SREday NYC Q2 2026 covering key themes from 20 talks by reliability engineers. Major topics included: building 'world models' for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/reliability-lessons-from-the-edges-of-sreday-nyc-ldyn7badi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Reliability Lessons From the Edges of SREday NYC | daily.dev og:description: A conference recap from SREday NYC Q2 2026 covering key themes from 20 talks by reliability engineers. Major topics included: building 'world models' for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/reliability-lessons-from-the-edges-of-sreday-nyc-ldyn7badi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ldyn7BadI.png og:image:alt: Reliability Lessons From the Edges of SREday NYC og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Reliability Lessons From the Edges of SREday NYC **[GitGuardian](https://daily.dev/sources/gitguardian)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A conference recap from SREday NYC Q2 2026 covering key themes from 20 talks by reliability engineers. Major topics included: building 'world models' for production systems to give AI agents proper context (Antimetal CTO); the danger of relying on average latency metrics in fintech, where P99 tail latency reveals real failures (Bank of Julius Baer); the difference between 'shifting left' and 'shoving left' — redistributing complexity without giving teams the tools to handle it; and why AI production agents fail differently than coding agents, often producing confident but wrong diagnoses. The overarching theme: AI has accelerated shipping speed beyond teams' operational understanding, and modern SRE must focus on grounding systems in evidence, ownership, and context rather than trusting surface-level green dashboards. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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