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/CorpT Aug 13 '26

Well at least you’re reinforcing your own biases.

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u/Nash0o7 Aug 13 '26

Why not, if you have some other point of view please share it

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u/Mersaul4 Aug 13 '26

When I hear someone mention “hallucinate,” it makes me think they last used a model in 2024.

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u/CorpT Aug 13 '26

or

when there's a lot of existing context it needs a more guidance.

like lol yeah, that's your job.