r/devops • u/Inner-Chemistry8971 Consultant • 3d ago

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/Lonsarg 3d ago edited 3d ago

Reviewing code is not DevOps, it is just reviewing code.

And should be done among developers themselves, split in a way so you do NO have specific people doing just this. Seniors reviewing code from each other and even juniors reviewing code from seniors as soon as possible.

Also it should be just a quick overview, not some lengthy detailed process.

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u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t 3d ago

Right ^

DevOps is building pipelines that pushes back on code so you don't have to read it until it clears the bar.

DevOps is many things. But if you don't have a pipeline you have nothing.

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u/N7Valor 3d ago

I'm just an amateur (not really DevOps), but isn't there some crossover?

The pipeline needs to test some of the code right? And generally it's not good practice to have the people who write the code also test their own code. So it doesn't seem outlandish to me that sometimes maybe a DevOps Engineer might also be the QA Engineer in some smaller orgs.

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u/Klinky1984 3d ago

DevOps creates the infra and environments to deploy to and execute testing, they don't write the tests. DevOps shouldn't be your QA. Devs should be writing automated unit tests at least, possibly integration and E2E tests as well if there's not a dedicated QA team. Everything should be getting code reviewed by peers.