Brian Teller
Founder of Teller’s Tech, staff-level DevOps engineer, and podcast host
Greencastle, Pennsylvania, United States
Actions
Brian Teller is the founder of Teller’s Tech and host of Ship It Weekly, a podcast for practitioners working in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and cloud. He brings real-world experience from staff-level infrastructure work across Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Kafka, CI/CD, incident response, and operational guardrails. Brian is also a DevOps Institute Ambassador and ITIL Ambassador, and much of his work centers on helping engineers cut through hype, think critically, and make better decisions in production environments.
Area of Expertise
Topics
Fast, Helpful, and Wrong: Critical Thinking for Shipping Software with AI
AI can write code, summarize incidents, generate Terraform, and sound incredibly confident while being completely wrong. For engineering teams, that creates a new kind of risk: the better the output sounds, the easier it is to stop thinking critically.
This talk is about what critical thinking looks like when AI becomes part of software delivery. I’ll break down where AI actually helps in platform, cloud, and DevOps work, where it tends to fail in dangerous ways, and how those failure modes show up in practice. That includes hallucinated infrastructure changes, shallow root cause analysis, bad assumptions hidden inside generated code, and overconfidence in summaries that skip key context.
I’ll also cover practical ways teams can use AI without outsourcing judgment: source verification, review loops, better prompting, sandboxing, policy guardrails, and clear ownership when AI is involved in production-facing work.
This is not a talk about whether AI is good or bad. It is a practitioner-focused look at how experienced engineers can use it productively without letting speed replace thinking. Attendees will leave with a framework they can use immediately to make AI-assisted engineering safer, sharper, and more useful.
Please note that Sessionize is not responsible for the accuracy or validity of the data provided by speakers. If you suspect this profile to be fake or spam, please let us know.
Jump to top