The Future Prospects of DevOps in an AI World

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While container configurations and cloud deployment code may look like they're begging for LLM assistance (lots of DSLs and environment-specific commands), the devil is of course in the details.

Dev ops should explicitly help with providing reliabity, predictability and correctness - none of these are especially prominent strengths of LLMs as far as I can tell.

On top of that, devops typically requires understanding the system and complex interactions at large, another thing LLMs are far from obtaining any semblance of competence in

The best use for them in devops currently is as a second pair of eyes looking out for mistakes. They should not be used as the primary author of IaC

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