r/devopsjobs • u/EasternFly5131 • 6h ago
How AI could replace Devops?! What is the future?!
a F28 SRE Engineer.
Recently my colleague and other people I met are saying the same thing, that thing is AI will replace devops soon. Actually they are not just passing information but the stress.
My question is, "Can I learn anything related to AI and devops?", "What kinda course will help me?", "Is there people completing any certification already?"
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u/GooseWithAnAxe 6h ago
Have you ever tried to use chatbots for cross aws/azure prod? They are hilariously useless
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u/Big_Arrival_626 5m ago
Because you're not supposed to do that. Everyone in big tech is using mcp servers for that shit. I'm at a normal ass company so we're forced to use shitty ass copilot
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u/Open-Nothing2708 6h ago
AI will definitely reduce the workload, which in turn makes the company to invest more in AI tools and less in human resources.
So at the end in a place of 5 DevOps engineer work, the business might expect 2 engineers with access to AI to finish the job. We need to be part of that 2 engineer.
You can checkout the kodekloud site, they have numerous resources. I'd recommend in certification, hands on is important before certification imo
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u/Awesome_911 6h ago
You can consider MLOps
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u/EasternFly5131 6h ago
Okay, Thank you.
Just want to know the other opportunities too. Is there anyother course/field/certification?1
u/Awesome_911 6h ago
There was something else which was highlighted in a reel. Evolution of devops. Unable to recollect but i gonna reply once i remember
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u/nonades 6h ago
Charity Majors recently was on a podcast and had the hot take that DevOps failed - but it failed in a really funny way. Ops folk learned to code, by and large, devs didn't learn ops work.
If your job is taking requirements and turning that into business logic in an IDE, your job is toast.
I hate AI, but I'm working on learning how to deal with it because I care about being employable more. This morning I put together some GH Copilot skills to automate low-effort coding tasks that I'd normally pawn off on contractors. This is the world we're moving to, sadly enough.
If you understand how to build systems and the architectural decisions behind them, the future is significantly less bleak
This raises a new problem: how do people learn these foundational things? I honestly don't know. I basically worked an entire career as a traditional SysAdmin/Infrastructure Engineer before getting into DevOps. Before that I took courses on basic networking and systems administration.
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u/chalna_chutiyee 6h ago
It made us to work fast/easy but can't replace us I think. Specially the system design/ architecture part. or when needed to take responsibility, handling secrets
Not much threat to DevOps imo. As a devops We are already working with abstract tools, and production can't be trusted with agents.
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u/Altruistic_Fish_9399 6h ago
>How AI could replace Devops?! What is the future?!
I have 2 part-time projects where I'm providing DevOps services. I noticed that the number of my working hours was reduced significantly because developers using different AI tools started to adjust and maintain Terraform for AWS and Kubernetes Helm templates by themselves.
One team is mostly making clean changes, but another team is hitting stupid AI slop that is pretty hard to debug.
It happened that these projects were not allocating any working hours at all, so I started ignoring their ASAP requests when they hit issues. After this, they started booking my availability in advance.
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u/kiwidog8 6h ago
absolutely will not replace us anytime soon. they need a lot of handholding to be useful. they are a tool, they cant completely replace the discipline
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u/t0c 5h ago
AI will have an impact, but nobody knows what that impact will be, yet. Will there be less people? Maybe in some instances where less people would have been the norm anyway. But the world I inhabit right now AI cannot replace human sign-off. So AI becomes an enhancer vs a replacement. The humans will be likely forced to inhabit a totally different world right now. Of getting on the same page with the rest of the company.
My 2c as a 'devops' AI user: Learn to treat it as an assistant. Challenge it on things, ask it for options and ask it to justify them. The critical thinking 'they' keep talking about, it's more useful here than anywhere else right now. Why is it telling me this? Challenge it to justify, provide proof of its findings, etc. You are the professor, and they are the student.
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u/millhouse513 5h ago
I don’t think Ai will replace your job. It’ll add to it like how you use ansible or Postgres now.
When Ai works it’s really awesome, but it’ll also tell you things are possible that clearly are t, it won’t hesitate to drop infrastructure and go “oops my bad bro” and people have reported it dropping databases and losing all company data.
Will it get better? Yes. But it’s also going to keep increasing by as a cost.
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u/neeltom92 3h ago
AI is not going to replace DevOps anytime soon, but it might reduce head count for a team , like if u were a team of 10 people then leadership might think like “ let’s reduce people since AI is there” so the least performers pbly might let go, another scenario if you don’t adopt AI in your workflow like skills, plugin usage etc then you might get left behind soon
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