Agentic AI in DevOps, without the hype
Weekly perspectives from engineers building and running AI on real infrastructure.
#16 — How DevOps Makes AI Safe to Scale
AI adoption needs trusted context and hard gates—not licenses, quotas, or coverage theater.
AI adoption stalls when licenses and quotas replace trust, context, and verification. Fernando Gonçalves and Vladimir Samoylov explain how DevOps makes agentic coding safe to scale through checkable starter tasks, organization-specific context, independent tests, Terraform plans, and deterministic gates—while exposing why token metrics, AI-written tests, and advisory Markdown can create false confidence.
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#15 — Can Origin and Entire Replace GitHub?
GitHub at agent scale: distributed mirrors may help, but APIs, CI, and human review remain the real bottlenecks.
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#14 — Loop Engineering in DevOps
Loop engineering turns coding agents from supervised helpers into bounded DevOps workers
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#13 — cmux vs iTerm with Viktor Vedmich
cmux workflows for faster Claude Code sessions, Kiro tradeoffs, and AI token cost reality
14 min read
#12 — Semantic Layers, Context Layers, and Agents That Stop Guessing
Why agents need live system context and shared meaning before they can act with confidence.
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#11 — Base of Record for Intelligent Systems
Why AI agents need a second brain before they can safely understand engineering systems.
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#10 — What Changed in Our Daily AI Workflow
Three engineers compare the habits, guardrails, and timing shifts reshaping everyday AI work
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#9 — Code with Claude: Routines, Agents, and the AWS Catch
Anthropic’s coding push gets real, but its new AWS route hides a compliance trap.
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#8 — DevOps Jobs Agentic AI Can Actually Do
Where agentic AI helps DevOps today, and where state, cost, and production risk still block it.
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#7 — Agent Memory: When It Helps, When It Hurts, and How to Manage It
Persistent memory can make AI agents smarter — or poison every session. Here's how the memory lifecycle works and when to skip it entirely.
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#6 — The Big AI Squeeze
As AI discounts fade, teams face the real economics of subscriptions, local models, and sustainable automation.
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#5 — Stop Your Agent Before It Breaks Prod
How hooks turn unpredictable coding agents into controlled, auditable workflows
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#4 — Harness Engineering: What Claude Code Accidentally Taught Everyone
Why the tool layer, not the model alone, decides whether coding agents deliver or derail
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From Frustration to Product: The Story of B.O.R.I.S
How a broken experience with AI CLI tools led us to build a context layer that actually knows your infrastructure.
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#3 — Skills, Powers, SOPs
Agent skills sound like magic until someone uploads malware to the public hub.
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#2 — The Tool Layer: What Makes Agentic AI Possible
Context windows, MCP overhead, and why micromanaging your AI agent makes it worse.
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#1 — AI in DevOps, 2022 to 2026: From Autocomplete to Action
How AI went from clever autocomplete to agents that can act on your infrastructure — and why context is the missing piece.
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