DevOps Handbook Author on AI Era: Tech Cycles and Open Weight vs Public Models
mkheck · x · 2026-08-14
In Episode 85 of Breaktime Tech Talks, host interviews John Willis, author of The DevOps Handbook, to share insights from five decades of tech shifts applied to the AI era. Key points include the 'fluorescence' of AI hype, recurring patterns from Linux/cloud/DevOps, ideation hackathons for organizational AI adoption, data provenance risks, buy vs build decisions between open weight and public models, and 'code is the new assembler'.
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