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Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
Nov 9, 2026 · 3 minAll articles by Mike Vizard
Showing 1–24Leah Adds Natural Language Harness to AI Software Factory
Leah has added Harness Builder to its Maestro platform, enabling professional developers and business users to create applications through natural language prompts. By combining AI agents, software factory workflows and governance controls, the company aims to simplify application development while helping organizations maintain security, consistency and oversight.
AI Coding Hits the Context Window Wall
Neeraj Deshmukh joins Mike Vizard to examine context limits in AI coding, coordinated agents and the review and testing bottlenecks that faster code generation exposes.
Blitzy Partners with Microsoft Frontier Company to Bring AI to Azure Workload Migrations
Blitzy, a provider of an artificial intelligence model that establishes the relationship between all the software artifacts in an IT environment, today announced it has allied with the Microsoft Frontier Company to help DevOps teams refactor existing applications in a way that makes it simpler to move them to the Microsoft Azure cloud service. As […]
Gas Town Builder: All AI Software Factories Are Bespoke
Gas Town creator Steve Yegge warns that AI-powered software factories are inherently bespoke and require ongoing human supervision. As autonomous agents take on more development tasks, DevOps teams must evolve into leaders capable of managing AI behavior, resolving conflicts and guiding software innovation.
Godfather of DevOps Advises Software Engineers to Brace for Agentic AI Impact
Patrick Debois, the godfather of DevOps and co-author of The DevOps Handbook who now serves as the product DevRel lead at Tessl, is advising DevOps teams to brace for a wave of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) engineering where more tasks are executed in parallel. Speaking at an AI DevCon event hosted by Tessl, Debois told […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
Anthropic Calls for Leaner Harnesses for Agentic AI Development
Anthropic is advising DevOps teams to rely on lighter-weight harnesses to drive agentic engineering workflows to de-duplicate instructions in a way that ultimately reduces costs. Speaking today at an AI DevCon event hosted by Tessl, Nicolas Carmont Zaragoza, a member of the technical staff for Anthropic, told conference attendees that in many cases the harnesses […]
Tessl Adds Reusable Loops to AI Software Factory Platform
Tessl this week revealed it has added ready-to-use loops that DevOps teams can now invoke and customize to drive agentic engineering workflows. Speaking at the company’s AI DevCon event, Tessl CEO Guy Podjarny told conference attendees that the company is moving to make it simpler to combine AI skills and self-optimizing loops to create a […]
IBM Extends Scope and Reach of DevSecOps Workflows in the AI Era
IBM is expanding its Terraform infrastructure-as-code platform and Bob AI coding assistant with new policy-as-code capabilities, automated vulnerability remediation and AI governance integrations. Announced at IBM TechXchange 2026, the updates aim to help DevSecOps teams securely manage infrastructure and accelerate software delivery as AI agents become more deeply embedded in development workflows.
Black Duck Adds AI Agent to Triage and Fix Vulnerabilities
Black Duck this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its portfolio that triages vulnerabilities and then generates and validates fixes for DevSecOps teams to review before applying them. Patrick Carey, vice president of product marketing for Black Duck, said the Signal Agentic Fix agent leverages the company’s static application security testing (SAST) and […]
Endor Labs Adds AI Tool to Generate Fixes for Open Source Vulnerabilities
Endor Labs this week added an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to its portfolio that evaluates every reachable open source vulnerability against a code context graph to generate fixes that typically require only 10 lines of code to be generated and applied. Joe Harrington, a principal product manager for Endor Labs, said AURI Fix for Open […]
Mistral Lays Claim to AI Coding Crown
Mistral has released the weights for its 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 model, delivering significant improvements in agentic coding and vulnerability discovery. With competitive benchmark results, lower token consumption and flexible deployment options, the French AI developer is making a stronger case for open-weight models as DevOps teams confront rising AI development costs.
GitHub Adds Tools to Manage AI Coding Agents Running in Parallel at Scale
GitHub today made a bevy of updates that collectively promise to make it simpler for DevOps teams to build and maintain workflows using artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Announced at the GitHub Universe conference, Jay Parikh, executive vice president for CoreAI at Microsoft, also provided additional insights into the investments that Microsoft is making to ensure […]
AWS Delivers AI Service to Discover Vulnerabilities and Generate Patches
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made generally available a service through which it finds and validates code vulnerabilities and provides a patch that DevSecOps teams can then automatically apply or set up a pull request to implement. Dr. Neha Rungta, director of applied science at AWS, said the AWS Continuum service for code vulnerabilities is […]
Report: Claude Code Exceeds GitHub Copilot for Merging Pull Requests
An analysis of pull requests published today by Jellyfish, a provider of an engineering intelligence platform, finds that Claude Code is the artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool used most often to merge pull requests (31%), followed by GitHub Copilot at 23%. Based on analysis of 100 million pull requests made in September by 276,000 developers […]
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
Survey: AI Coding Tools Increase Open Source Software Dependencies
A survey of 307 enterprise technology leaders finds that as organizations rely more on artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools to build applications, they are simultaneously increasing the amount of open source software they are dependent on. Conducted by the market research firm Moving Horizon on behalf of ActiveState, a provider of a platform for accessing […]
mabl Adds Harness to AI Testing Automation Platform
Mabl today extended its test automation platform with a harness that, in addition to enforcing guardrails and testing standards for artificial intelligence (AI) agents, enables application development teams to better understand the impact of code changes before a pull request (PR) is made. Announced at a mabl Experience event, the extensions to the test automation […]
GemDB Extension Uses Code to Update Database
GemDB has introduced a Visual Studio Code extension that enables developers and AI coding agents to create, modify and persist database objects directly through Python code. With integrated Jupyter Notebook and MCP support, GemDB Code aims to eliminate traditional schema migrations, simplify database management and accelerate DevOps workflows.
Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of […]
Blitzy Adds Chat-to-Prompt Interface to Agentic AI Engineering Platform
Blitzy this week added a chat interface to a platform that enables DevOps teams to employ artificial intelligence (AI) agents by expressing their intent in natural language. Dr. Neeraj Deshmukh, Field CTO for Blitzy, said the Chat to Prompt interface makes it possible for a software engineer to describe a desired outcome that is then […]
ScienceLogic Extends Observability Reach and Control Deeper into AI Agents
ScienceLogic has added additional tools and capabilities to its observability platform that provide deeper visibility and control over artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are being used to automate IT operations. The latest 2.7 update to the Skylar AI platform provides visibility into agent routing and tool selection via a catalog that uses traces to surface […]
BAND Desktop Application Streamlines Management of AI Coding Agents
BAND today made available a desktop application through which application developers can more easily manage and collaborate with multiple coding agents. Company CEO Arick Goomanovsky said the BAND for Developers application, in addition to providing more context and coordinating handoffs between disparate AI agent sessions, also makes it simpler for developers to intervene whenever an […]