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.
Suno raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation—more than doubling its worth in seven months—despite facing copyright lawsuits from Universal Music Group and Sony alleging unauthorized use of over 61,000 copyrighted works in its AI training data.
OpenAI expanded Codex with six role-specific plugins for jobs like sales and investment banking, a Sites feature for sharing work as hosted interactive webpages, and inline Annotations for targeted edits, as non-developer users grow three times faster than developers on the platform.
Inherent emerged from stealth with a $50M seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures to develop Faraday, an AI system designed to reimagine scientific discovery by enabling open-ended human-AI collaboration on unsolved research problems.
XCENA raised $135 million at a $570 million valuation to commercialize its MX1 chip, which places compute capabilities directly inside memory modules to eliminate the costly data relay between CPUs, GPUs, and DRAM that bottlenecks every AI inference request.
Google unveiled Gemini Spark at I/O 2026, a 24/7 AI agent built on Gemini 3.5 that runs continuously on Google Cloud and leverages deep Gmail and Workspace integration to autonomously handle complex tasks on users' behalf. According to Google, a preview rollout to Ultra subscribers begins next week.
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