# Sentinel Diary #4: From Dashboard to Incident Response — The deterministic path to reliable SRE

This article details the evolution of an SRE project, describing how different AI models (Claude Code, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Minimax 2.7) were utilized for development, refactoring, and building a new dashboard. The author transformed a cost-viewing dashboard into an incident response tool, improving code structure and development velocity.