Is it just me or is that prompt... not ideal? There's no concrete simple goals, no mention of testing, no loop. No description of the problem space or what success should look like. One-shot might work for this with frontier models, but they often need more for success.

Saying "any SRE should be able to do this" is already problematic, because regardless of title, there are smarter people and dumber people. You're taking a gamble giving a human SRE this prompt. Whether it's AI or human, give it more context and instruction, or failure is likely. (And more importantly: use a loop so it can fix itself!)

(also: SRE is too generic... there are a dozen kinds of SRE)