You're really talking about how companies abuse devops as a way to hire someone who can step on everyone's toes without regard. Or save money. Or some political

You're really talking about how companies abuse devops as a way to hire someone who can step on everyone's toes without regard. Or save money. Or some political crap. But really devops is about sharing pain and aligning groups. And not even just Dev and Ops, that was just where it started. Anyone at a big company that's dealt with their finance, legal or HR teams knows alignment is critical. Companies that abuse it are basically trying to save money by trying to coopt the concept into an excuse to hire someone to do both jobs (which typically results in average or worse results in one or more of the roles). Or it's a power play by an exec. But ultimately it sours the whole thing for everyone that has the misfortune of being subject to it. I know there's a boatload of people that have "devops" in their titles these days and while I get that they're just taking advantage of a bad situation to make some extra money I still can't help thinking that most of them know they're hurting the concept by cooperating that way and that's pretty shitty.