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DevOps Paradox

by Darin Pope & Viktor Farcic

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Are Layoffs Really Because of AI?

October 21, 2026 · 45 min

#373: A company lays off 4,000 people the same day it posts record revenue, and the stock jumps. Is that really because of AI? Or just a really good press release? Layoffs used to mean a company was bleeding cash. Now they show up next to…
Using AI Every Day Doesn't Make You Good at It

October 14, 2026 · 49 min

#372: Your company bought everyone a ChatGPT or Claude license. Problem solved, right? A few people never touch it. Most use it like a drive-through window -- type a question, grab the answer, leave. And the ones using it all day for…
Should You Vibe Code Your Own CRM?

October 7, 2026 · 30 min

#371: You've got an idea, two friends, and a coding agent. Why would you pay for a CRM when you can vibe code one this weekend? Day one, it looks great. You love it. Then day 30 shows up. Somebody else needs access, a new feature breaks…
Will AI Replace QA Testers?

September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

#370: Will AI replace QA testers? Three years ago, manual testers were told to learn automation or find another job. Now the automation engineers are hearing the same thing about AI. Same speech, new audience. Here's the thing. Nobody can…
Vibe Coding Without the Slop

September 23, 2026 · 49 min

#369: Vibe coding is great until it isn't, and the until part usually shows up fast. Ten different ways to calculate sales tax. An agent that switches programming languages in the middle of a request. One team on NodeJS, another on Python…

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The AI Productivity Paradox

September 16, 2026 · 54 min

#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…
Zero-Human Companies Still Need Humans

September 9, 2026 · 41 min

#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…
How to Prevent npm Supply Chain Attacks

September 2, 2026 · 53 min

#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…
What the DORA AI ROI Report Really Says

August 26, 2026 · 48 min

#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…
How to Avoid Burnout as a Leader

August 19, 2026 · 48 min

#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…
Is Your Website Agent-Ready?

August 12, 2026 · 44 min

#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…
Feature Flags vs Canary Deployments

August 5, 2026 · 48 min

#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…