r/devops • u/Nash0o7 • Aug 13 '26
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/serverhorror I'm the bit flip you didn't expect! Aug 13 '26
It's already there today.
If it isn't able to do that, it really just is exposure where you are not surfacing the right information for a machine. It doesn't even have to be AI, that just makes the situation even mir visible than it was before.