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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 25/09/2026

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps : AI Engineering for Infrastructure: Rogue AI or Just Sloppy Ops?. Have a listen:

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Rogue AI or Just Sloppy Ops?

The OpenAI Hugging Face hack. The Anthropic testing failures. Listen to...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 01/09/2026

Doing the work of evaling my badass GitHub Actions skill then tweaking, then eval, then tweak, ♾ to prove that my skill works even on Haiku, which is the shittiest of all the models now

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 26/08/2026

Create, troubleshoot, and audit your GitHub Actions with every trick and best practice I know youtu.be/zPWAjOWimak

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I Built The Ultimate Agent Skill for GitHub Actions: See How I Made It

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 21/08/2026

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps : AI Engineering for Infrastructure: AI Agent Sandboxing with Nono. Have a listen:

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AI Agent Sandboxing with Nono

Luke Hinds, co-founder of nolabs Inc. and the nono project, joins me to...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 01/08/2026

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps : AI Engineering for Infrastructure: AI-Native Engineering Culture from a CTO. Have a listen:

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AI-Native Engineering Culture from a CTO

My friend Mike Rollins joins me for a chat about what it’s like leading...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 29/07/2026

What does an AI-native CI look like, and how can you get there? The Semaphore team joins me to talk about their focus on making your agent harness the gateway to testing, fixing, and deploying your code. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vka1...

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On Stream: CI/CD via agent tools: Skills, CLIs, MCP, and more with Semaphore

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 22/07/2026

Streaming tomorrow: Agent Sandboxing with "nono". Co-founder @lukehinds.bsky.social joins me as we dig into how it works, how to restrict single commands, agent harnesses, tool calls, and egress filtering URLs, e.g. blocking GitHub write access #devsecops #agenticdevops youtube.com/live/qZ2AOZj...

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On Stream: Agent Sandboxing with nono

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 09/07/2026

My #GitHub Actions Security Hardening workshop is free next week. Months of research and tool-making resulted in a 2-hour event that shows you where your repos are lacking in security for your workflows, and how to fix them www.bretfisher.com/gasa-workshop

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GitHub Actions Security Workshop, Sponsored by Chainguard

Harden your GitHub workflows and repos from the most common supply chain attacks. A hands-on workshop taught by Cloud Native Ambassador and Docker Captain Bret Fisher.

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 17/06/2026

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps : AI Engineering for Infrastructure: Safer Agent Automation with GitHub Agentic Workflows. Have a listen:

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Safer Agent Automation with GitHub Agentic Workflows

A deep dive into GitHub’s Agentic Workflows feature, with Don Syme of...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 17/06/2026

So many agent harness sessions and the async nature of prompting is changing our terminals. Have you switched? www.youtube.com/watch?v=98CM...

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My new terminal daily driver: Supacode for macOS

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 16/06/2026

🎙️Podcast drop: Manage #Kubernetes agent-first with OpenChoreo, a new CNCF project that wants to make K8s “AI-native.” Watch the video podcast: youtu.be/AqGWjxEfj2g Listen to the audio podcast: podcast.bretfisher.com/episodes/k8s...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 08/06/2026

"In all of 2025, GitHub processed 1 billion commits. Now it processes 1.4 billion a month. Daigle says agents alone are now creating more than 17 million pull requests a month." thenewstack.io/github-wants... #github #githubactions

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How GitHub plans to win developers back

For much of the past year, GitHub has not been the stable utility developers had long gotten used to. Outages,

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 06/06/2026

Talking about #Kubernetes + AI is confusing, as there are three types of job roles doing this work. I wrote about what I'm seeing across dozens of #DevOps teams I've talked to this year and predicting what K8s will look like with agents built-in www.bretfisher.com/newsletters/...

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AI-Native Kubernetes: What Does it Mean?

Kubernetes is all about AI now, but what does that mean for cluster admins and platform engineers?

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 03/06/2026

A CNCF Kubernetes “super distro” with built-in agents and all the fixin’s. OpenChoreo is on the stream this week, so we can get nerdy and explain how it’s different from that other distro. Click Notify to join us Thursday www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-y...

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K8s Maxxing with AI-Native Platform Engineering Stack with OpenChoreo

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 02/06/2026

“Those agent automations you built are too expensive to run, so have humans do it” is a future potential conversation

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 02/06/2026

We knew the tokens were subsidized. We used Opus with glee. Now we get to add cost as the next dimension to this already complex equation, which carries a non-zero risk of costing more than it’s worth to implement

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 30/05/2026

One of my favorite quirks of Opus (all LLM models?) is how they voluntarily estimate labor time, saying "Cost of this feature: Small. Half-day of...." and I'm thinking, bro... you and I both know you'll be done in 5 minutes, stop the humble brag

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/05/2026

/me Reminds myself again that we're living through an incredible moment in our software careers, and to take a minute, lean back, and be present in the chaos that we will tell tales of in a decade or two. Every day could have moments of eureka, dread... or both, and that's a rare experience in life

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 21/05/2026

Streaming about agents shaping the future cloud (aka I have no idea what I'm doing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Av...

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What is Agent-Native Cloud?

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 09/05/2026

I shipped 4 more videos on how different agent harnesses deal with AGENTS and CLAUDE md files. The Agentic DevOps guild has now had 8 weeks of meetups with ~40 engineers representing their teams in adopting AI in CI and platform engineering roles www.bretfisher.com/theguild

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Join the Agentic DevOps Guild, from Bret Fisher

Where LLMs, AI Agents, and MCP tools meet DevOps. Stay at the top of your DevOps game during the AI transition by gaining access to all Bret's agentic DevOps and CI/CD content, along with an exclusive...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 07/05/2026

on stream: gonna test out some agent harness sandboxes youtube.com/live/p3g7-fz...

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On Stream: Agent Sandboxes

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 06/05/2026

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps : AI Engineering for Infrastructure: AI SREs, Chat With Your Infrastructure with Anyshift. Have a listen:

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AI SREs, Chat With Your Infrastructure with Anyshift

Bret’s joined by the Anyshift.io co-founders, Roxane Fischer and...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 30/04/2026

joining @vfarcic.bsky.social aka DevOps Toolkit for a talk about AI in your DevOps www.youtube.com/live/PClC7l0...

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DevOps & AI Q&A

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 29/04/2026

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Agentic DevOps: Can AI Agents Safely Become DevOps Engineers?. Have a listen:

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Can AI Agents Safely Become DevOps Engineers?

Sam Alba, co-founder of Mendral, joins the show to discuss their new AI...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/04/2026

Oh, and Raleigh devopsdays is this week! 👏 devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

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Devopsdays Raleigh 2026

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/04/2026

East Coast is for #devopsdays! #Nashville is in two weeks, and I have a 20% off coupon for ya: DODBRET-GET20OFF Talks include stress-testing AI agents, AI “slop wrangling”, Docker + MCP, and using agent skills and MCP for IaC. Checkout the program: devopsdays.org/events/2026-... #devops

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Program for devopsdays nashville 2026

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 10/04/2026

#GOTOpodcast: @bretfisher.com & @eltonstoneman.bsky.social talk #Docker. -> what still matters -> where people get stuck -> the gap between “it runs” and “I know what I’m doing” -> why fundamentals still show up in every real system 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

If you can get specific on a current blocker I might have more specific recommendations, or I might 🤷‍♂️ lol

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

3. More granular PAT/API keys for agents that work on my behalf. All my host CLIs have full read/write, but I only want the agent to have read until ready for deploy. I need to switch environments with the same agent. Some projects that are working on that problem, but we don't have *the* answer yet

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

2. better sandboxing. I'm working with Docker on improving their sandbox tool, and creating some guidance on an OpenCode client/server container model for harness sandboxing.

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

But right now we're in need of 1. better agent permissions models for local tool calling. Claude Code just launched more intelligent permissions *this week* with "auto mode"

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

Forcing ourselves to be agent harness-first (it will cause negative productivity gains for near term) seems to unlock peoples learning path (ripping off the bandaid of human file editing). Then find a study group you can learn with.

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

I've started shadowing multiple new Guild members each week this month and it's clear who's forcing themselves to use the prompt for most/all work (pre-production work) and who's still editing files by hand 50% of time and "just dabbling in AI."

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

My advice right now is generally, get good at TUIs (Claude Code, OpenCode, etc.) and practice using the prompt to keep AGENTS.md updated and making Skills for your agent harness. Skills are the big unlock in 2026, but all this takes lots of practice, even after reading the docs.

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

It's still very early says for everything agentic post-commit. Lots of SaaS saying they can solve big problems with AI but I'm not sure all these problems need to be fixed by a proprietary product.

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 28/03/2026

There's very little of substance, and nothing end-to-end that I know of. Current content lacks teeth (no specifics on tactics). It's one of the reasons I created the Agentic DevOps Guild: training and discipline around applying these tools to infrastructure and automation. bsky.app/profile/bret...

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 26/03/2026

Live RN. Claude Code vs. OpenCode. I've used both for 4+ months back and forth. #OpenCode speaks to me, and I love it's client/server architecture, but CC has an edge in some areas. I'm no expert yet, but I've got 12 reasons I like OC better! youtube.com/live/yLCq3Sx... #ClaudeCode

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On Stream: Claude Code vs. OpenCode

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Bret Fisher @bretfisher.com · 26/03/2026

Which is more active and more authentic at #kubecon, X or Bluesky? I asked Claude for analysis of last two days. Across both, 2/3rd of posts are corporate accounts or humans promoting, with 1/3rd being genuine experiences and shared learnings. X has more posts, but Bluesky has more "real humans"

Stats of posts and people posting them on X and Bluesky for KubeCone, with this summary text underneath the stats: Verdict: X Has More Volume, but Bluesky Has More Authentic Voices
X has more raw posts (~260 vs ~190), driven heavily by corporate and bot accounts. The percentages are actually similar across both platforms — about 64–67% of posts on both are some form of marketing or corporate presence.
However the unique human voices in Category 3 tell a starker story: Bluesky had ~54 distinct humans just sharing their experience, while X had only ~32. Bluesky's Category 3 is qualitatively richer — more humor, personal observations, reactions to talks, community moments. X's Category 3 is thinner and more diluted by news-summarizer accounts and amplification bots.
One notable X-specific pattern: about 14+ near-identical tweets from different human-looking accounts all sharing the exact same Broadcom press release within hours of each other — coordinated PR amplification that has no real equivalent on the Bluesky feed.
So yes — your hypothesis holds on X too. But the ratio of authentic-to-promotional is actually slightly better on Bluesky, and the humans posting there are doing so with noticeably more personality.

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