Upskilling your agents

Upskilling your agents

From Adventures in DevOps by Will Button, Warren Parad

March 28, 2026 · 53 min · Episode 267

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of modern infrastructure and the role of AI skills in deploying open-source projects while addressing security concerns.

Share Episode                     In this adventure, we sit down with Dan Wahlin, Principal of DevRel for JavaScript, AI, and Cloud at Microsoft, to explore the complexities of modern infrastructure. We examine how cloud platforms like Azure function as "building blocks". Which of course, can quickly become overwhelming without the right instruction manuals. To bridge this gap, one potential solution we discuss is the emerging reliance on AI "skills"—specialized markdown files. They can give coding agents the exact knowledge needed to deploy poorly documented complex open-source projects to container apps without requiring deep infrastructure expertise.           And we are saying the silent part outloud, as we review how handing the keys over to autonomous agents introduces terrifying new attack vectors. It's the security nightmare of prompt injections and the careless execution of unvetted AI skills. Which is a blast from the past, and we reminisce how current downloading of random agent instructions to running untrusted executables from early…

People in this episode

Hosts: Will Button, Warren Parad

Guest: Dan Wahlin

Topics covered

  • AI skills
  • cloud infrastructure
  • security risks
  • automation
  • DevOps
  • open-source projects

Keywords

  • AI
  • cloud platforms
  • infrastructure
  • security
  • automation
  • DevOps
  • open-source
  • container apps

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Azure, OpenClaw

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