At the SEV0 San Francisco 2025 event, discussions centered on the transformative impact of AI on incident response, highlighting a shift towards integrating human and machine efforts for faster, more resilient processes. AI's role in automating routine tasks and enhancing reliability was emphasized, with incident.io's AI SRE exemplifying how AI can proactively manage incidents and reduce downtime. The event also explored the human factors in incident management, advocating for incorporating these into engineering practices to improve system reliability. Speakers like Martin Smith from NVIDIA noted that customer experience during incidents is becoming as critical as the incidents themselves, suggesting that incident response should be woven into product design to enhance transparency and customer trust. Additionally, the importance of communication and social coordination in debugging cross-system incidents was underscored, as seen in Sara Hartse's insights from Render. The conference concluded with a consensus that incidents offer opportunities to rethink workflows, with AI acting as a catalyst for more human-centered and efficient incident management strategies.