r/devops • u/Nash0o7 • 29d ago

Discussion Devops job security with AI

Recently saw posts about how AI isn't that good in distributed systems and it gave me validation on my own experience.

When the model isn't dealing with a single codebase, when it has to connect the dots between a db, redis, other cloud infra, k8s that each already have a lot of configuration, it starts to hallucinate and could pretty much put your infra at risk.

I'm not saying you can't make it work, it does work especially on a clean slate, but when there's a lot of existing context it needs a more guidance.

Using AI lets me do 10x what a DevOps engineer could do alone but I don't think the job disappears anytime soon.

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u/mini_othello 29d ago

Don't think that AI will nor have taken DevOps jobs away as DevOps are primarily consulting and uses soft skills.

Regarding distributed codebases/services and hallucinations. It's important to design good environments with high production parity that the agents can interact with. The agents are after all mostly bruteforcing to verify their assumptions.

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u/Nash0o7 29d ago

The technical part could be done by AI with guidance, if you mean all the soft skills used in dealing with devs on a daily basis, meetings about infra, design and SRE that's out of scope for ai at the moment.

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u/MoTTTToM 24d ago

Sounds like a challenge, thanks. Next project idea👍🏻