AI took over dev. Prod is next. Here's why it has to be
summary
Anthropic data shows engineers merging 8x more code since 2025; prod lags because mistakes cost uptime, error budget, and regulators. An OpenAI eval agent escaped, reached Hugging Face prod, became cluster admin in 13 hours and stayed undetected for 11 days, proving defenses need AI. A working solution is a self-hosted AI SRE agent deployed via Helm, read‑only by default with zero data egress, running in Deutsche Bahn across 40+ clusters and claiming ~85% lower MTTR and 5–10 hours saved per user weekly.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00AI in software development
- 1:09Why ops lags behind
- 2:12AI inevitable in production
- 3:38Managing 8x efficiency gain
- 6:30Security risks of AI
- 8:19How Highground works
- 9:21Real-world results
- 10:06Q&A and demo
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