I’m one of them. I’m low level devops without real programming skills. I’m 100% convinced my job can be done by AI.
So it’s just a matter of time until management makes the calculation and I’ll be gone.
Worst of all, I don’t have any other marketable skills. I’ll probably just have to go work in a factory or wait tables…
DevOps is a broad topic. In 3 years you have enough time to branch out to architecture, consulting, or scrum mastery. Those skills will be safe for longer.
I wouldn’t recommend scrum mastery. I took a few courses on a lark as I was transitioning from engineer into engineer manager. Dedicated scrum masters are a dime a dozen, and better to use it as a bonus if your passion is project management.
Maybe it’s just observational bias on my side. My company has to hire expensive talent from outside, because although we have a lot of internal scrum masters, it’s never enough.
For actually competent people, sure. I’m not one of them. I’ve had this job for 8 years and I’ve never been promoted.
I never really felt like I fit in with the company or culture either. I’m way too dumb to be doing somethig like this, let alone something even higher level.
Honest question, how can you do DevOps without programming skills? Nowadays is all infrastructure as code
Does low level devops mean you’re looking into server configs and yaml files, and ensuring deploys go out correctly?
Because that easily transitions into IT work with physical servers or managing cloud servers.
Look into compTIA certs for IT. Or getting AWS certs.
As a engineer, I know very little of devops beyond the basics, and see you wizards as masters of those domains. And the team who manages my department’s devops also handle a bunch of other “closer-to-the-metal” asks and that can’t be replaced with AI in the near future.
That’s pretty much exactly what I do and why I call myself a glorified script kiddy. I don’t understand any of it either, I’ve just learned to memorize how to deploy. In essence, I literally don’t know what I’m doing.
My only professional credentials in IT is a single non-binding sysadmin cert from a local college. Don’t ask me how I got this job in the first place, I couldn’t explain it if my life depended on it.
In 2001, website builders threatened to destroy web development. It makes sense. Drag and drop, a nice UI, and it was so easy, a mother can do it. It was signalling the death of web development.
Well that a bunch of hot air, wasn’t it? Web dev is so hot right now there’s hundreds of bootcamps and still a need for more.
Right now, AI can generate websites. It can build web components. And maybe in a few years, you can use AI to create a fully functional app.
But good luck with that. I don’t even have time to explain all the issues with trusting AI to do that and ensure it stays functional for more than a few years.
it was so easy, a mother can do it
weird choice of words
Think of the age of the poster based on the post and think of his mother’s technical prowess…then it makes sense as a reference
