I sure hope so. But realistically AI will thin the devops herd much more rapidly than "proper" development teams. I already use an LLM to crank out my configs,

I sure hope so. But realistically AI will thin the devops herd much more rapidly than "proper" development teams. I already use an LLM to crank out my configs, shell scripts, analyse my logs etc. LLMs are a lot better at these things than full fledged development. I think I am now able to do in days what it would have taken me weeks. My employer does not need to hire as many devops people as it would have pre LLMs. As you can see you don't need to give AI write access to your production environment.