Welcome to a new episode of AI Mind Talks. Ori Simantov is joined by Yishai Halpert, Director of DevOps at HiBob, to explore how AI agents are changing the work of DevOps teams — from creating software services to supporting developers in Slack.
Yishai walks through the infrastructure foundations behind HiBob’s agents, how the team chose its first workflows, and why a conversational interface can reduce the back-and-forth of manual requests. They discuss the work that goes into making agents dependable: evaluations, observability, feedback loops, and knowing when a human should step in.
The conversation also explores token costs and model choice, the challenge of building a living “company brain,” and how to measure autonomous, hybrid, and manual work. Looking ahead, Yishai explains why connected agents and richer company context matter for more autonomous software development — and why keeping people at the right decision points remains essential.
Key takeaways:
00:00 Introduction and welcome to Yishai Halpert
00:48 The DevOps role and why managers need hands-on experience
04:55 Balancing AI innovation with production reliability
07:06 Automating software-service creation: the infrastructure backbone
11:47 Why Slack became the interface for service provisioning
13:51 Connecting support agents and orchestration
14:48 Agent maintenance, evaluations, and observability
19:15 Where humans intervene and how review creates a feedback loop
25:53 Token costs, model choice, and learning from traces
32:06 Building a company brain: dependencies and living context
38:27 Measuring autonomous, hybrid, and manual work
40:52 How DevOps is changing and advice for getting started
43:38 Rapid-fire: tools, project portfolios, and people
44:40 Closing thanks
Resources mentioned:
HiBob: https://www.hibob.com/
Slack: https://slack.com/
OpenAI: https://openai.com/
Backstage: https://backstage.io/
Notion: https://www.notion.com/
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