Dmytro Spodarets Podcast #1: AI Agents, Scalr, OpenTofu, DevOps tools, MLOps, LLMops
Infrastructure trends, DevOps challenges, and bold predictions — including whether AI Agents could replace DevOps engineers.
Infrastructure trends, DevOps challenges, and bold predictions — including whether AI Agents could replace DevOps engineers.
Igor Savchenko is the CTO and co-founder of Scalr, a remote state and operation backend for Terraform and OpenTofu. He is also one of the co-founders of OpenTofu. During our conversation with Igor, we explored different DevOps tools, talked about infrastructure challenges and security. We also dived into MLOps, LLMops, and AI Agents, discussed the future of infrastructure, made some predictions, and talked about whether AI Agents could replace DevOps engineers.
Replit raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation, effectively tripling its valuation since its last funding round. Replit also launched Agent 4, a faster AI coding agent that can be run in multiple parallel instances and that can handle more complex workflows than its predecessors.
Recent AI translations of Wikipedia articles have been found to contain substantial errors and hallucinations, causing outrage amongst the Wikipedia volunteers tasked with fighting the endless stream of AI slop that threatens the encyclopedia's survival and integrity.
GPT-5.3 Instant, OpenAI's most recent model update, brings improved conversational tone, flow, and relevance after widespread frustration with GPT-5.2's overbearing tone and unwarranted assumptions about its users' intent and emotional states.
OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion pre-money valuation from SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon. The startup also secured strategic partnerships for infrastructure and scaling with Amazon and NVIDIA, as OpenAI continues to serve 900M weekly ChatGPT users and 1.6M weekly Codex users.
Accenture partnered with European AI leader Mistral AI to co-develop and scale enterprise-grade AI solutions globally, combining Mistral's sovereign models with Accenture's capabilities to help organizations deploy customizable AI systems with greater control and ownership.
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