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DevOps in the Age of AI
DevOps & AI July 2025

DevOps in the Age of AI: A Quiet Revolution

How AI is quietly transforming the way we build, deploy, and maintain infrastructure—and what it means for your team.

DevOps AI Automation
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AI-Generated Infrastructure
Infrastructure August 2025

Faster, But Dumber: The Cost of AI-Generated IaC

AI can now spit out Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi—you name it—at lightning speed. But while speed is seductive, accuracy, context, and nuance still matter.

AI Terraform Infrastructure
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Copilot in CI/CD
DevOps & AI August 2025

Copilot in CI/CD: Helpful Teammate or Drunken Intern?

Copilot can be an incredible accelerant for building out CI/CD pipelines. But give it too much leash, and you'll start finding surprises.

DevOps CI/CD GitHub Actions
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Observability in the AI Era
Observability August 2025

Observability in the AI Era: Why You Can't Skip the Wiring

One of the quiet side effects of leaning on AI for infrastructure and pipeline generation is that it's very good at producing functional configurations—and very bad at producing observable ones.

Observability AI Monitoring
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Real-World GPT Case Study
DevOps & AI August 2025

Real-World Case: How I Used GPT to Help Solve an Image Build Pipeline

A deep dive into using GPT as a collaborative partner to re-architect an image build pipeline that scales to multiple OS versions while reusing service elements.

DevOps AI GPT CI/CD
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What I Don't Trust AI With
DevOps & AI August 2025

What I Don't Trust AI With (Yet)

I use AI every day in my infrastructure work. It's fast, it's helpful, and when used well, it's a legitimate productivity boost. But there's a short list of things I won't hand over—because the cost of getting them wrong is just too high.

DevOps AI Security
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Building AI Guardrails
DevOps & AI August 2025

Building Guardrails: Prompt Templates and AI-Fenced Patterns

AI can be a great accelerant for infrastructure work—but only if you keep it inside the rails. Learn how to build effective guardrails that keep AI in the scaffolding zone.

DevOps AI Guardrails Best Practices
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InfraGPT DevOps AI Assistant
DevOps & AI August 2025

InfraGPT: What a DevOps-Focused GPT Needs to Know

Explore what a specialized DevOps AI assistant would need to understand about infrastructure systems, governance, and cross-stack reasoning.

DevOps AI InfraGPT Infrastructure
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AIOps Hype Reality
DevOps & AI August 2025

AIOps: Hype, Reality, and Where It Fits

Cut through the AIOps hype to understand what's real, what's not, and where these tools actually fit in your infrastructure stack.

DevOps AI AIOps Observability
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AI and DevOps Hiring
DevOps & AI August 2025

AI and DevOps Hiring: Cheaper or Just Noisier?

Has AI commoditized DevOps hiring, or just made the market noisier? The real gap between AI-assisted and AI-reliant engineers.

DevOps AI Hiring
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AI Augmentation in DevOps
DevOps & AI August 2025

Final Thoughts: Augmentation, Not Replacement

After ten posts of experiments and insights, the conclusion is clear: AI is an augmenter, not a replacement. Here's what really matters.

DevOps AI Leadership
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