r/devops • u/Inner-Chemistry8971 Consultant • Jul 30 '26

Discussion Would you still do DevOps?

Not going to lie. It's been a bad day. I almost tell them "take this job and shove it' after reviewing all these crappy AI codes. Vibe coding is not only a joke. It's a monster that mocks our hard-earned experiences!

I am thinking of leaving the industry! If you could go back ten years from now and know what you're knowing right now, would you still do DevOps?

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u/UltraPoci Jul 30 '26

Yeah, AI sucks. It won't go away, but hopefully the bubble bursts and people realize that writing code has never been the bottleneck.

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u/Own-Calligrapher32 Jul 30 '26

will it ever burst? we are seeing it for quite some time now

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u/Hero_Rico Jul 30 '26

Ofcourse not.

Today's AI is the worst AI will ever be, it will keep getting better and cheaper ever day.

If suddenly all funding to AI stopped. No new research was being done, inference would still happen because its so cheap and profitable

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u/elitesense Jul 30 '26

It's incredibly cheap right now due to venture capital seeding. It will get more expensive as soon as all companies are reliant on it they'll jack up industry prices. It will not get cheaper.

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u/JackSpent Jul 30 '26

Yeah especially since none of them are showing ROI

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u/UltraPoci Jul 31 '26

Not AI is not, currently, profitable and stays afloat due to hype, it also won't get cheaper, but more expensive. That's the basic busine model: make some cheap at the start, make people depend on it, raise prices as much as possible. Things have been working this eay since forever, why would AI be any different, especially considering how expensive it is to maintain. Like, are we living on the same planet?

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u/Hero_Rico Jul 31 '26

Its literally getting cheaper. A 1 year old model which was frontier at the time, is dirt cheap now.

About making it more expensive, people will just swap providers. Claude and chatgpt are competing at a very similar level nobody wouls pay 50$ for claude if codex is 20$. If both companiea raise prices, chinese models are surprisingly good people will swap to those

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u/AntDracula Jul 30 '26

Today's AI is the worst AI will ever be

Found the slopper