> I think we need to give up on fighting this fight. The thousands upon thousands of job postings with that job title clearly indicate otherwise.

> Better to accept that the philosophical battle has been lost and that DevOps Engineer is the new name for other titles like "System Administrator", "Infrastructure Engineer", "Operations Engineer", or "Site Reliability Engineer".

As soon as I had a recruiter ask me "why are you looking to write software if you're DevOps?" incredulously on the phone I knew that there was no coming back from this. The fact that somebody whose literal job it is to have a good grasp of the technical labor market thinks that somebody can "be DevOps" (just because they have Kubernetes on their resume... never mind the slew of languages and frameworks) and that being such is orthogonal to software development is an unfortunate state of affairs.