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I don't think I can take DevOps anymore with our current "AI advancements"

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I am not the most experienced DevOps person on earth so keep that in mind. I have tried studying DevOps before and after the AI revolution and now, it simply feels like all I do is tell the AI what to do and then review.

Whether its platform engineering or SRE, its all in the same circle, and I thought I was lazy when I had to only review, but I found out my team doesn't even bother because "Claude code rarely gets it WRONG"

My job now is tell the AI to make a pipeline, make a platform for engineers to do 1 then 2 then 3 with some constraints (basically I design and the AI does it) and then have another AI look at the containers and Kubernetes and fix a ton of issues on its own and all we do is simply take a look. I understand that not all companies do that, but they will because "AI is so productive".

I already wanted to move to a while ago security but I love DevOps (or whatever they wanna call it now) that I decided to keep going for a while before I make a move but I just can't anymore and I don't know if I am alone in this or if not coding or doing anything other than reviewing AI is the new normal, but I found out that cloud engineers/architects still use their brains because of some business constraint here or security concern there so I might simply dive towards that and then move up to cloud security but I am heartbroken that when I tell people this, they tell me that I need to keep up or I won't have a place later and how its so much better to manage the AI instead of writing anything yourself.

Posted May 28, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC

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