Dev-turned-Ops argues Ops roles may be more resilient to AI agents than Dev jobs
cl3don · reddit · 2026-11-15
A Reddit user who moved from Dev to Ops argues AI affects the two roles differently: for Devs, agents are rewriting the core activity of writing code itself, while for Ops (SRE/platform engineering), AI looks more like a continuation of the existing automation and orchestration trend. They ask whether this makes Ops more resilient to the AI wave — or whether the framing oversimplifies.
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