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Ep85: John Willis on DevOps Lessons for AI + Open Weight vs Public Models

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In this episode, I sit down with John Willis, author of The DevOps Handbook and Rebels of Reason. We discuss how lessons from John's five decades of technology shifts apply to organizations the AI era.

Highlights:

  • The "fluorescence" of AI: why the hype is blinding and what we keep forgetting
  • Patterns from Linux, cloud, and DevOps that repeat with every tech shift
  • Ideation hackathons: a structured approach to organizational AI adoption
  • Data provenance risks and why throwing tools at non-technical teams is dangerous
  • Buy vs. build: open weight vs. public models and the hybrid approach
  • "Code is the new assembler": will developers still write code?
  • AI model drift: what happens when a model upgrade breaks your application
  • Agentic AI, kill switches, and the efficiency-thoroughness trade-off

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