The Future Of DevOps Still Has A Pulse
devops.com, Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Over the last few years, we have watched our industry get swept up in the promise of AI agents. The pitch is compelling: tell a system 'Deploy this workflow and roll back if things don't go as expected,' and watch it handle everything else.
No more YAML troubleshooting and pipeline debugging. We've all been there, staring at a failed deployment wondering which of the 17 moving pieces decided to break this time, so it surely has a good appeal to it. The promise of agentic DevOps, of handing over the complexity and just working on abstraction, feels like a great deal.
But here's what I've learned after implementing these systems in production: Just because a system tells me in perfect English that it understood the assignment, it might still have missed the actual intent. We've seen agents confidently execute workflows that were technically correct but operationally disastrous.