DOP 370: Will AI Replace QA Testers?
#370: Will AI replace QA testers? Three years ago, manual testers were told to learn automation or find another job. Now the automation engi...
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DOP 369: Vibe Coding Without the Slop
#369: Vibe coding is great until it isn't, and the until part usually shows up fast. Ten different ways to calculate sales tax. An agent tha...
DOP 368: The AI Productivity Paradox
#368: You're faster with AI. Your teammates are faster with AI. More tickets closed, more deployments going out than a year ago. So why can'...
DOP 367: Zero-Human Companies Still Need Humans
#367: Every few weeks another pitch lands. A company with no employees, just a founder and an army of AI agents. Zero headcount. Zero payrol...
DOP 366: How to Prevent npm Supply Chain Attacks
#366: You ran npm install this morning. Maybe you ran it a dozen times. Every one of those pulled down a dependency tree you have never read...
DOP 365: What the DORA AI ROI Report Really Says
#365: A bad engineer with a laptop is much worse than a bad engineer with a calculator. Now hand that engineer AI. DORA's ROI report puts it...
DOP 364: How to Avoid Burnout as a Leader
#364: Your CEO comes back from a leadership offsite talking about burnout-proof leadership and AI transformation at scale. Two weeks later y...
DOP 363: Is Your Website Agent-Ready?
#363: Three waves of the web, and you are late for the third one. The 90s were about getting a browser to render your page at all. The early...
DOP 362: Feature Flags vs Canary Deployments
#362: Feature flags or canary deployments - do you need both? Viktor puts it to Alex Casalboni from Unleash, who says he argues about this w...
DOP 361: When Code Got Cheap, Reviewing Got Expensive
#361: Picture a 6,000-line pull request landing in your project from someone you've never heard of. Every test passes - yours, theirs, all o...
DOP 360: What Is an AI SRE?
#360: Assume your production systems go sideways at 3:00am. Your phone doesn't ring. You wake up to a clean incident report - the system cau...
DOP 359: Demos in the Age of AI Agents
#359: When was the last time you sat through a 30-minute product demo and walked away actually knowing anything? You would learn more from f...
DOP 358: Just-in-Time Access for AI Agents
#358: Production is on fire. You need access to one table you have never touched. So you file an access request, then phone the desk to say...
DOP 357: What Is Spec-Driven Development?
#357: Type a prompt, get code, fix the hallucinations, type another prompt. That is vibe coding, and it is a fine place to start. It is a te...
DOP 356: Warehouse Robots Are a Distributed System
#356: Fleet management means one thing to a DevOps engineer and something completely different to Tomas Kovacovsky. To Viktor it is a CD pro...
DOP 355: Why AI Coding Slows Down Code Review
#355: Picture your engineering team a year from now. A coding agent doing the coding. A testing agent on tests. A security agent on security...
DOP 354: Your Dead Founder Trains New Hires
#354: How do you build a consent system for someone who is dead? How do you clone a voice so it cannot be turned into a deep fake? Miles Spe...
DOP 353: A Person Owns It Not the AI
#353: Move fast and break things never meant be reckless. It meant do not stall out of fear, because something is going to break no matter h...
DOP 352: No-Code Is the Guardrail Vibe Coding Needs
#352: Vibe coding is the latest version of a promise the industry has been making since the first generation of programming languages. Type...
DOP 351: The Developer Job Market in the Age of AI
#351: Entry-level tech jobs are down 67% since 2022. Junior developer roles are down 40 to 50%. The instinct is to blame AI and call it unpr...