Project owners dream of a SAS-trained ops team taking down legacy servers. Reality gives you a golden retriever SRE, an ABC 80 raccoon, a sloth lead, an ADHD rainbow cat, and a cloud monkey.
When recruiters demand a single Junior DevOps engineer who knows 70 tech stacks and 14 cloud providers, the only logical response is to build your own autonomous AI agent team with blackjack and local LLMs.
Why does it constantly feel like we are struggling to keep up in this industry? We aren’t all full teams of highly specialized, elite experts, yet we are constantly pressured to have immediate solutions to every complex problem.
Ever feel like your entire career is standing on shifting sand? As a DevOps engineer watching the rapid rise of AI coding assistants, I’ve found myself questioning our ultimate relevance.
Taking a break from job hunting is important. But getting sucked into a 300-hour Rimworld binge leads to some strange thoughts—like drawing parallels between HR recruiters and Randy Random.
