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I'm a Cloud/DevOps eng, and feel like DevOps is at least somewhat vulnerable to AI/automation. I think "architect" types may be safe, but all of the hands-on kn
by yunwal 4y ago
I'm a Cloud/DevOps eng, and feel like DevOps is at least somewhat vulnerable to AI/automation. I think "architect" types may be safe, but all of the hands-on knowledge about wiring up different systems seems to be ripe for automation. My guess is in 10 years time, DevOps is just absorbed into backend engineering at most companies.
- tomcam 4y agoI wonder if your optimal path would be writing the stuff that's going to replace your job?
- yunwal 4y agoI just transitioned to doing MLOps for our deep learning team, so yeah I'm kind of already on that track :)
- verdverm 4y agoThere is a lot of value in having dedicated people thinking about operational efficiency, cost controls, developer productivity, build correctness, security posture, what technologies to even use... "DevOps" can be a lot more than configuring AWS or Kubernetes and SRE'n those systems. I don't think it wise to fully absorb it into the development teams, the ops team enables them to do more and has cross team visibility to create opportunities that aren't seen at the team level. I would expect backend development to experience as much automation as operations. There is a lot more training data for backend compared to operations as well
- yunwal 4y agoYeah, I think this'll be a case where like >50% of it gets automated and salaries drop. Like you said, big cos are always going to need people thinking wholistically about this stuff, but I do think we're exiting an era where every small-to-midsized startup needs a dedicated devops team. I also think availability concerns as a whole is a bit of a bubble. Most news sites don't actually need 4 9s of availability.