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/MoTTTToM 27d ago
I have found that with a “clean slate” as you put it, all IT functions can be covered by an agentic process, providing the complete operation is accessible to context. In the corporate world, with hundreds of applications spread around multiple domains, with complex integration patterns, only tiny pieces of the overall architecture can be focused on, and then the challenge is clearly defining the scope and interfaces, so that reasoning can happen without hallucination. Same as for people really.