# Who Owns Production When the Agent Does the Fixing? Governance in AI-Assisted SRE

PyTorch Conference North America 2026 · [All sessions](https://sessionize.com/api/v2/s2rq62nk/view/markdown)

- **Session ID:** 1255337
- **When:** Tuesday, October 20, 2026 11:10 am - 11:35 am (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08)
- **Room:** 210A (Concourse Level)
- **Speakers:** Aditi Mewada

## Description

AI agents are no longer just suggesting fixes - they're shipping them. As autonomous remediation becomes standard in SRE workflows, the industry is quietly skipping over a critical question: when an agent misconfigures a service at 3am and takes down production, who is accountable? This talk explores the governance frameworks, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns that separate safe autonomy from dangerous automation. We'll examine where AI-assisted SRE is genuinely delivering with faster MTTR, reduced toil, and smarter alerting, and where unchecked agent authority creates new classes of failure. You'll leave with a practical mental model for deciding what your agents should fix, what they should flag, and what should never leave a human's hands.

## Speaker

- [Aditi Mewada](https://sessionize.com/api/v2/s2rq62nk/view/markdown/speaker/fe7da75f-1d59-4c92-9bf8-b84854b6da3e) — Software Engineer - Apple