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Maybe my consulting firm is atypical since we specialize in non-tech, tricky, bespoke business software and in maintaining difficult codebases, but that has not been my experience. Devops mean the ops team has to waste more time in meetings with devs as they are involved at more steps of the process. Clients that have moved business software to the cloud needed as much or more ops support, some clients are moving those back to on-premise, and while "standard" cloud services like O365 are technically able to force multiply your ops team (less personnel required for same services), the expectations are increased to make up the difference rather than the hours cut. A small company before would not have expected the same services from 5-10 hours/week of an IT ops guy's time than they now do with Office 365.
Though as I said, my experience might be atypical. But in conservative fields outside of tech (manufacturing, agricultural, etc...), people tend to be multiple steps behind in the IT "tech tree". Most of the companies I deal with are in-between the virtualization era of IT operations and the cloud era. Mid to late 00's "tech level". None have reached the level of sophistication to employ tools like orchestration, let alone ops AI. I'm at about the mid-point of my career, so if AI starts eating all the jobs at the bleeding edge, I figure I've probably got time to reach retirement before it eats mine.
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