DevOps Paradox

Sep 16, 2026 — #368: You're faster with AI. Your teammates are faster with AI. More tickets closed, more deployments going out than a year ago. So why can't anybody in the building answer a simple question: are we shipping more value? Jeff's take is that the...

Sep 09, 2026 — #367: Every few weeks another pitch lands. A company with no employees, just a founder and an army of AI agents. Zero headcount. Zero payroll. Then the AI CMO hallucinates a marketing campaign and somebody has to catch it. Viktor runs the numbers on...

Sep 02, 2026 — #366: You ran npm install this morning. Maybe you ran it a dozen times. Every one of those pulled down a dependency tree you have never read, from a registry that spent years in maintenance mode, and then executed whatever preinstall and postinstall...

Aug 26, 2026 — #365: A bad engineer with a laptop is much worse than a bad engineer with a calculator. Now hand that engineer AI. DORA's ROI report puts it politely - AI without engineering excellence just scales your problems. Except it's not more of everything....

Aug 19, 2026 — #364: Your CEO comes back from a leadership offsite talking about burnout-proof leadership and AI transformation at scale. Two weeks later you're working through lunch, you're working through dinner, and Slack never stops. Deployment frequency is up....

Aug 12, 2026 — #363: Three waves of the web, and you are late for the third one. The 90s were about getting a browser to render your page at all. The early 2000s were about SEO, or as Darin puts it, sell me all the ads ready. Now it is agent ready, and Cloudflare...

Aug 05, 2026 — #362: Feature flags or canary deployments - do you need both? Viktor puts it to Alex Casalboni from Unleash, who says he argues about this with his colleagues roughly every day, and the answer lands clean. Switching a hostname, a database, an API...

Jul 29, 2026 — #361: Picture a 6,000-line pull request landing in your project from someone you've never heard of. Every test passes - yours, theirs, all of it. And you can tell it was generated. Not assisted. Generated. What do you do with it? Viktor's first move is...

Jul 22, 2026 — #360: Assume your production systems go sideways at 3:00am. Your phone doesn't ring. You wake up to a clean incident report - the system caught the problem, fixed itself, and left a Slack note saying it handled things at 3:15. Would you trust it?...

Jul 15, 2026 — #359: When was the last time you sat through a 30-minute product demo and walked away actually knowing anything? You would learn more from five minutes hands-on than an hour of watching someone else drive. Now you have help. An agent can watch the...