What Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do.

One of the primary reasons DevOps failed is that it invariably ends up becoming the developer help desk. Into that department is dumped all the tasks and project that developers don’t want to do, don’t understand how to do, or are not smart enough to undertake.

And in my experience devs are even worse to support than regular users. Most non-dev users are aware of how little they know. However, developers often think they know much more than they actually do. This leads to untold problems.

DevOps is a failed experiment. In the end, ops people should do ops and devs should do dev work. AI might change that some, but that’s the basic shape of it.