Jeff Kuo from Ragic on why no-code is the guardrail vibe coding needs, the AI ceiling already here, and why maintenance is still the thing that kills projects.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

May 20

DOP 351: The Developer Job Market in the Age of AI devopsparadox.com/episodes/t…

DOP 351: The Developer Job Market in the Age of AI

Viktor and Darin on why junior dev jobs collapsed, what replaces them, and how to stay employable when an agent does what you used to.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

May 13

DOP 350: Context Is the New Bottleneck, Not Code devopsparadox.com/episodes/c…

DOP 350: Context Is the New Bottleneck, Not Code

Patrick Debois on why context is the new bottleneck, why prompts deserve the care code gets, and what comes after both.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

May 6

DOP 349: Shadow AI Is Going to Be a Thousand Times Worse Than Shadow IT devopsparadox.com/episodes/s…

DOP 349: Shadow AI Is Going to Be a Thousand Times Worse Than Shadow IT

Ben Wilcox on why shadow AI will dwarf shadow IT, why six-month-old pen tests are already useless, and how to get ahead of it.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Apr 29

DOP 348: Now It's Time to Panic devopsparadox.com/episodes/n…

DOP 348: Now It's Time to Panic

Viktor on why chatbots are dead, why one-person companies are eating mid-size businesses, and why it is time to panic.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Apr 22

DOP 347: Cozystack Turns Bare Metal Into a Managed Services Platform devopsparadox.com/episodes/c…

DOP 347: Cozystack Turns Bare Metal Into a Managed Services Platform

Andrei Kvapil on Cozystack, building managed clouds on bare metal, and why his AI agent should be talking to your AI agent instead of either of you.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Apr 15

DOP 346: Fighting AI in Your Project Is a Terrible Mistake devopsparadox.com/episodes/f…

DOP 346: Fighting AI in Your Project Is a Terrible Mistake

AI isn't killing open source. Bad maintenance is. Viktor on drive-by PRs, empowerment, and what humans still bring to the table.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Apr 8

DOP 345: From Chat Prompt to Working Software With Kiro devopsparadox.com/episodes/f…

DOP 345: From Chat Prompt to Working Software with Kiro

Kiro's spec-driven approach fixes what vibe coding breaks on complex projects. Amit Patel on intent, verification, and what humans still do.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Apr 1

DOP 344: KubeCon EU 2026 Review devopsparadox.com/episodes/k…

DOP 344: KubeCon EU 2026 Review

KubeCon EU 2026 proved Kubernetes is now an AI platform. Inference routing, micro VMs, agent-first platforms -- and containers barely matter anymore.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Mar 25

DOP 343: Your APIs Were Never Built to Be the Front Door devopsparadox.com/episodes/y…

DOP 343: Your APIs Were Never Built to Be the Front Door

APIs were built for internal engineers. AI agents are turning them into the front door. Matt DeBergalis on why that changes everything.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Mar 18

DOP 342: Your Company Documentation Is Useless for AI devopsparadox.com/episodes/y…

DOP 342: Your Company Documentation Is Useless for AI

Your documentation exists everywhere -- Zoom calls, Slack threads, outdated wikis. Here is why RAG alone will not fix what your organization broke.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Mar 11

DOP 341: AI Widened the Highway but Nobody Rebuilt the Bridge devopsparadox.com/episodes/a…

DOP 341: AI Widened the Highway but Nobody Rebuilt the Bridge

More code is being written than ever, but shipping is slower. Trevor Stuart on feature flags as safety switches for AI agents.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Mar 4

DOP 340: Why Operations Teams Resist Every Technology Wave devopsparadox.com/episodes/w…

DOP 340: Why Operations Teams Resist Every Technology Wave

Ops teams resist every tech wave for rational reasons -- and that rationality is exactly what puts them two years behind.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Feb 25

DOP 339: DNS Is Old Tech (And That's Why It Still Runs the Internet) devopsparadox.com/episodes/d…

DOP 339: DNS Is Old Tech (And That's Why It Still Runs the Internet)

Anthony Eden runs global DNS infrastructure with 20 people and zero VC money. We talk domain security, AI tools, and why vibe coding doesn't belong.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Feb 18

DOP 338: The Assembly Line Problem: Why Adding AI to One Step Breaks Everything devopsparadox.com/episodes/t…

DOP 338: The Assembly Line Problem: Why Adding AI to One Step Breaks Everything

AI coding tools speed up developers but features don't ship faster. The bottleneck just moves downstream to QA, security, and ops.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Feb 11

DOP 337: Nanoseconds Matter - InfluxDB and the Future of Real-Time Data devopsparadox.com/episodes/n…

DOP 337: Nanoseconds Matter - InfluxDB and the Future of Real-Time Data

InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan explains why physical AI demands nanosecond-precision time series data and how open source business models are evolving.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Feb 4

DOP 336: Why Top Talent Won't Work for You Anymore devopsparadox.com/episodes/w…

DOP 336: Why Top Talent Won't Work for You Anymore

Explore how AI is reshaping hiring as employees bring their own AI teams to work, transforming compensation, governance, and employment law.

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Darin Pope

Darin Pope @DarinPope

Jan 28

DOP 335: Stop Building Dashboards and Start Getting Answers With Coroot devopsparadox.com/episodes/s…

DOP 335: Stop Building Dashboards and Start Getting Answers With Coroot

Coroot co-founder Peter Zaitsev explains how eBPF-powered self-hosted observability delivers answers without the cloud markup or dashboard-building hassle.

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