Episode 128: Animated Bedtime Stories, Telling Dummies What to Do, and Why Docker Lost, with Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a developer advocate at Upbound, runs the DevOps & AI Toolkit YouTube channel, and was last on the show back in episode 89. Whitney and Coté start with the animated bedtime stories he has started making - tech history told as fairy tales with a nightmare at the end - which he began after catching sight of himself in a mirror and deciding people should not have to watch that. From there it is what his working day looks like now, with 20 to 50 agents running at once, a coder and a tester and a reviewer who are not allowed to do each other's jobs and argue until they agree, and a private YouTube channel where the agents post recorded tests for him to review on his phone in the morning. The last stretch is money: why he thinks AI is cheap next to what a person costs, why he expects a bloodbath as industries fail to adapt, and a walk through Docker, Chef, Puppet, Ansible and HashiCorp on whether an open source company can ever turn a profit on its own.

Check it out in YouTube, if you prefer that kind of thing.

Mentions:

• DevOps & AI Toolkit on YouTube, where the bedtime stories live.
• devopstoolkit.live - the blog and video archive.
• devopstoolkit.ai - the product.
• Viktor on GitHub.
• DevOps Paradox, his other podcast.
• Episode 89, his first time on the show.

Special Guest: Viktor Farcic.

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Special Guest: Viktor Farcic.