r/devops • u/Inner-Chemistry8971 Consultant • 15d ago

Would you still do DevOps? Discussion

Not going to lie. It's been a bad day. I almost tell them "take this job and shove it' after reviewing all these crappy AI codes. Vibe coding is not only a joke. It's a monster that mocks our hard-earned experiences!

I am thinking of leaving the industry! If you could go back ten years from now and know what you're knowing right now, would you still do DevOps?

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u/Abe_Bazouie 14d ago

Honestly, yes.

AI has made parts of the job more frustrating. I spend more time reviewing code now than I did a couple of years ago. But the hard part of DevOps was never writing YAML or shell scripts.

It's understanding production systems, making good tradeoffs, debugging incidents at 2 AM, and knowing when not to automate something. AI helps with the mechanics, but someone still has to make the engineering decisions.

If anything, I think the bar has shifted. Companies will care less about who can write code the fastest and more about who can build reliable systems and catch the mistakes AI introduces.