Every six months, a new headline declares the death of something we all rely on and right now, DevOps and the engineers who practice it are squarely in the crosshairs. AI will write your pipelines, automate your deployments, and make your team of five redundant by Q3. Probably.

Except... no.

In this talk, we cut through the noise. We'll look at where AI is genuinely changing how we work and where the hype is doing more harm than good by sending teams chasing tools instead of solving problems. We'll talk about what "AI-assisted DevOps" actually looks like on the ground versus what it looks like in a vendor keynote. And we'll be honest about which parts of your job are actually at risk — spoiler: it's not the parts the headlines are worried about.

You'll leave with a clearer mental model for evaluating AI claims, a few patterns worth stealing, and the confidence to ignore the next wave of "everything is dead" takes — at least until the next conference season.

For: Platform engineers, DevOps practitioners, and anyone who's tired of being told their career is obsolete.
Not for: People who want to be told AI changes nothing and their workflow needs no rethinking.