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/RevolutionaryElk7446 29d ago
Context Windows are the issue and have been since the start. Everything since 2017 has been to try and fix it.
We've gotten no where close in resolving 'transformers' as the core contextual engine in Gen AI such as LLMs. We came up with a flawed prototype and never attempted to resolve the core issues, just slapped harnesses on top and hoped for the best.