To be fair, there's "ops to support production" and "ops to support development". "Devops" means the latter at some companies, so it makes a kind of sense that

To be fair, there's "ops to support production" and "ops to support development". "Devops" means the latter at some companies, so it makes a kind of sense that those people don't do any dev work themselves. But I agree with you, that's the exact opposite of the meaning "devops" has in other places, which is the meaning it was coined with. That was the innovative approach of merging dev and ops teams to be the same people, and things like production CD, to explicitly prevent developers from just focusing on programming (which was considered detrimental when there's an outside world depending on it). Like Agile and XP, it was a fresh new approach...