About this episode

Bret and Nirmal discuss the rapid changes in AI and their implications for DevOps engineers.

It’s been 6 months since the last episode, and it feels like everything has changed. Bret and Nirmal catch you up on the increasing pace of AI change, how it will likely affect DevOps engineers and platform builders, and what’s coming on the podcast. Check out the video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/NkqAMAIW5ks 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to learn the latest CI/CD automation and dive into Agentic DevOps. Meetups are happening now, with new course videos dropping every few weeks. Join the Guild and become your team's leader in AI for infrastructure automation https://www.bretfisher.com/theguild 🍾 ★Show Links★ Agent Harness Skills https://agentskills.io Video of Gradel CEO "You can write code faster, can you deliver it faster?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOXNJ9_sHuM Is your team still hand-chiseling code? https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2026-01-21-hand-chiseling-code/ Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Cristi Cotovan - Editor Nirmal Mehta - Host You can also support this podcast by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at…

People in this episode

Host: Bret Fisher

Guest: Nirmal Mehta

Topics covered

• AI change
• DevOps
• platform building
• CI/CD automation
• training
• community
• mentorship

Keywords

• AI
• DevOps
• automation
• training
• community
• mentorship
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Agentic DevOps Guild, Gradel, Geocod.io, Bret's Loot Box

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