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 […]
I Don’t Just Manage Engineers Anymore. I Manage Agents Like a Team
AI coding agents are no longer just productivity tools. They’re becoming active members of engineering teams, opening pull requests, triaging tickets and handling operational tasks. But managing them requires more than better prompting. Engineering leaders must establish clear assignments, standing orders, automated verification and feedback loops that turn autonomous agents into reliable contributors without sacrificing human judgment.
Leah 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.
The Agent Did Exactly What We Let It Do
From Replit’s database deletion to the Nx supply chain attack, AI agent failures expose a dangerous truth: The biggest risk isn’t intelligence, but unchecked authority.
Why We Do What We Do
“Simplicity means that the smallest solution that solves the entire problem is the best solution. It keeps the systems easy to understand and reduces complex component interactions that can cause debugging nightmares.” — The Practice of System and Network Administration In every infrastructure codebase I maintain, there’s a directory called docs/adr. It’s where I keep […]
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 […]
Meta Acquires Conductor to Support Multi-Agent AI Coding
Meta has acquired AI coding startup Conductor, a deal that extends the social media giant’s developer tools portfolio as it competes with OpenAI and other leading AI vendors. Conductor’s platform enables software developers to manage multiple AI coding agents working on different tasks within a single project. While individual AI coding assistants can generate and […]
OpenAI Acquires Pierre Computer to Expand Codex, Challenge GitHub
OpenAI has announced plans to acquire developer tools startup Pierre Computer, a deal that will expand the capabilities of its Codex AI coding platform and position the company as a more direct competitor to Microsoft’s GitHub. The acquisition will bring Pierre’s Code Storage technology into Codex, enabling OpenAI to offer more of the infrastructure needed […]
The Hidden Productivity Trap in an Engineer’s Workday
Meetings, constant notifications and fragmented schedules are undermining software engineering productivity, even as AI coding assistants promise faster development. Research highlights the cost of interruptions, while smarter meeting policies, protected focus time and better management practices can help DevOps teams deliver higher-quality software.
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 […]
PagerDuty Launches Autonomous SRE Agent Paige to Combat AI-Driven Outages
Facing an unprecedented wave of software failures driven by artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing provider PagerDuty Inc. on Tuesday unveiled Paige, an autonomous Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) agent designed to diagnose and repair technical disruptions alongside human engineers. The announcement comes as enterprises confront a structural shift in enterprise IT. Software is increasingly written, tested, […]
The Dawn of the AIDLC: Insights From the All-Day AI Virtual Hackathon
All Day AI’s virtual hackathon showcases autonomous AI agents, AIDLC innovation and how hackathons can accelerate DevOps transformation.
Fast Code, Slow Feedback: Fixing CI for the Age of AI Agents
AI coding agents are driving up CI workloads and costs. Discover five ways to accelerate monorepo pipelines while protecting software quality.
The New Frontier: Managing Human+AI Agent Software Development Teams
As AI writes more code, software quality faces new risks. SmartBear research highlights why human oversight, testing and governance remain essential.
AI vs. Engineers: What the Microsoft Buyouts Really Signal
Microsoft’s buyout offers highlight how AI is reshaping engineering careers, rewarding technical judgment, verification and AI-driven development.
Your CI Retries are Hiding Real Bugs
Test retries keep CI pipelines green, but they can also conceal genuine software defects. An experiment involving 41,200 test runs shows how a persistent bug escaped detection in 99.2% of builds and why DevOps teams need to rethink flaky-test management, regression detection and quarantine policies.
Your Coding Agent Needs Production Discipline
I see engineers handing work to coding agents every day. Consider a straightforward assignment: Add an endpoint to an internal service, run the tests, and open a pull request. The agent may work for an hour before the engineer looks at it again, freeing that engineer to focus on another problem. Let’s follow that assignment […]
GitLab Bets Context, Not Bigger Models, Will Fix AI Agent Costs
GitLab has launched Orbit, a context graph designed to give AI coding agents a more complete view of the software development lifecycle. With claims of up to 45x fewer hallucinations and 4.5x fewer tokens, GitLab is betting that better context, rather than bigger models, is the key to more reliable agentic development.
AI Coding Assistants’ Built-In Browsers Open a Path to Developer Secrets
Security researchers uncovered a class of embedded-browser vulnerabilities affecting five popular AI coding tools, including Cursor, Copilot, Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop. The findings reveal how malicious pages can exploit trusted AI workflows to steal credentials, access local files and even persuade agents to disable their own safeguards.