AI Wins and Misses for 2025

About this episode

The episode reviews the AI tools of 2025, discussing their successes and failures.

I'm joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and Viktor Farcic from Upbound, to go through our 2025 year in review. We look into the AI tools that consumed us this year, from CLI agents to terminal emulators, IDEs, AI browsers - what worked, what flopped, what's worth your time and money, and what we think isn't! Check out the video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/mnagfUsh5bc 🙌 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 🍾 Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Nirmal Mehta - Host Viktor Farcic - Guest You can also support this podcast by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news ! Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses . Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord . Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box Homepage bretfisher.com (00:00) - Introduction (04:15)…

People in this episode

Host: Bret Fisher

Guests: Nirmal Mehta, Viktor Farcic

Topics covered

• AI
• technology
• DevOps
• cloud computing
• automation

Keywords

• AI tools
• CLI agents
• terminal emulators
• IDEs
• AI browsers
• infrastructure automation
• Agentic DevOps
• CI/CD automation

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Agentic DevOps, AWS, Upbound

Books & works: Game of AI Tools

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