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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 17h
DOP 370: Will AI Replace QA Testers? www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/will…
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DOP 370: Will AI Replace QA Testers?
Will AI replace QA testers? Shubha Govil of Sauce Labs on why testing roles stay, the work changes, and AI code brings a validation tax.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DOP 369: Vibe Coding Without the Slop www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/vibe…
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DOP 369: Vibe Coding Without the Slop
Dan Fernandez of Salesforce on vibe coding without the slop: guardrails for coding agents, and why developers are needed more than ever.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DOP 368: The AI Productivity Paradox www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-…
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DOP 368: The AI Productivity Paradox
AI made every developer faster, so why isn't the team shipping more? Jeff Keyes of Allstacks on where the bottleneck moved and why product owns it.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
DOP 367: Zero-Human Companies Still Need Humans www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/zero…
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DOP 367: Zero-Human Companies Still Need Humans
Zero-human companies still need humans. Darin and Viktor on AI agents, headcount math, and why zero-human is the new serverless.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
DOP 366: How to Prevent npm Supply Chain Attacks www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/how-…
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DOP 366: How to Prevent npm Supply Chain Attacks
npm install runs arbitrary code before you blink. David Mytton on install scripts, pinning, dependency cooldowns, and defense in depth.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
DOP 365: What the DORA AI ROI Report Really Says www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/what…
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DOP 365: What the DORA AI ROI Report Really Says
DORA says AI without engineering excellence just scales your problems. Amplifiers, the review bottleneck, and the only metric Viktor thinks counts.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
DOP 364: How to Avoid Burnout as a Leader www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/how-…
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DOP 364: How to Avoid Burnout as a Leader
Leadership burnout, what you can actually control, and why Nokia and Blockbuster both saw disruption coming and died anyway.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
DOP 363: Is Your Website Agent-Ready? www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/is-y…
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DOP 363: Is Your Website Agent-Ready?
Cloudflare scores if your site is agent-ready. Why agents want Markdown not HTML, what AEO changes about SEO, and why your API matters more than your MCP.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
DOP 362: Feature Flags vs Canary Deployments www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/feat…
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DOP 362: Feature Flags vs Canary Deployments
FeatureOps explained - runtime control, kill switches, and why feature flags outlive the code. Alex Casalboni of Unleash on flags vs canary deployments.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
DOP 361: When Code Got Cheap, Reviewing Got Expensive www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/when…
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DOP 361: When Code Got Cheap, Reviewing Got Expensive
Open source maintainers are rejecting AI-generated PRs. Why code got cheap while review got expensive, and whether banning contributions actually helps.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
DOP 360: What Is an AI SRE? www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/what…
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DOP 360: What Is an AI SRE?
AI SRE, self-healing incidents, and no more 3 AM pages. What actually works in production, where trust breaks, and why runbooks can hurt.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
DOP 359: Demos in the Age of AI Agents www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/demo…
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DOP 359: Demos in the Age of AI Agents
Product demos are changing now that AI agents watch the video, read the docs, and try it themselves. MCP servers, CLIs, sandboxes, agent-ready docs.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Listen to the full episode with @darinpope.bsky.social and @vfarcic.bsky.social at www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/what…
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Listen to the full episode with @darinpope.bsky.social and @vfarcic.bsky.social at www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/what…
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Listen to the full episode with @darinpope.bsky.social and @vfarcic.bsky.social at www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/what…
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
DOP 357: What Is Spec-Driven Development? www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/what…
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DOP 357: What Is Spec-Driven Development?
Spec-driven development with AI - why detailed specs can backfire, when to skip them, and why your five throwaway MVPs are the real spec.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
DOP 356: Warehouse Robots Are a Distributed System www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/ware…
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DOP 356: Warehouse Robots Are a Distributed System
Fleet management for physical robots: how Brightpick runs canary rollouts, rollbacks, and observability across a warehouse full of autonomous pickers.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
DOP 355: Why AI Coding Slows Down Code Review www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/why-…
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
DOP 354: Your Dead Founder Trains New Hires www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/your…
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DOP 354: Your Dead Founder Trains New Hires
Miles Spencer of Reflekta.ai on cloning a voice from a voicemail, and why your dead founder could run employee onboarding.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
DOP 353: A Person Owns It Not the AI www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/a-pe…
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DOP 353: A Person Owns It Not the AI
Why move fast and break things still works in the AI era, what the AWS Kiro outage teaches, and why a person owns the work -- never the agent.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
DOP 352: No-Code Is the Guardrail Vibe Coding Needs www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/no-c…
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DOP 352: No-Code Is the Guardrail Vibe Coding Needs
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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
DOP 351: The Developer Job Market in the Age of AI www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
DOP 350: Context Is the New Bottleneck, Not Code www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/cont…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
DOP 349: Shadow AI Is Going to Be a Thousand Times Worse Than Shadow IT www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/shad…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
DOP 348: Now It's Time to Panic www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/now-…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
DOP 347: Cozystack Turns Bare Metal Into a Managed Services Platform www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/cozy…
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
DOP 346: Fighting AI in Your Project Is a Terrible Mistake www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/figh…
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
DOP 345: From Chat Prompt to Working Software With Kiro www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/from…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
DOP 344: KubeCon EU 2026 Review www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/kube…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
DOP 343: Your APIs Were Never Built to Be the Front Door www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/your…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
DOP 342: Your Company Documentation Is Useless for AI www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/your…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
DOP 341: AI Widened the Highway but Nobody Rebuilt the Bridge www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/ai-w…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
DOP 340: Why Operations Teams Resist Every Technology Wave www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/why-…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
DOP 339: DNS Is Old Tech (And That's Why It Still Runs the Internet) www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/dns-…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
DOP 338: The Assembly Line Problem: Why Adding AI to One Step Breaks Everything www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
DOP 337: Nanoseconds Matter - InfluxDB and the Future of Real-Time Data www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/nano…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
DOP 336: Why Top Talent Won't Work for You Anymore www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/why-…
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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 @darinpope.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
DOP 335: Stop Building Dashboards and Start Getting Answers With Coroot www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/stop…
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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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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
DOP 334: If Code Is the Easy Part, What Should Developers Actually Be Doing? www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/if-c…
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DOP 334: If Code Is the Easy Part, What Should Developers Actually Be Doing?
Discover why coding was never the hardest part of software development and how AI is transforming the skills developers need to thrive.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
DOP 333: The Hidden Problems Behind Every Data Pipeline www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-…
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DOP 333: The Hidden Problems Behind Every Data Pipeline
Dagster CEO Pete Hunt discusses scaling data infrastructure, trust and safety at Twitter, and why most AI projects fail despite technical sophistication.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
DOP 332: 2026 - The Year of Discovery www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/2026…
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DOP 332: 2026 - The Year of Discovery
AI in DevOps 2026: Why operations teams resist AI, the future of platform engineering with agents, and why writing code may be the least valuable skill.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
DOP 331: Looking Back on Our 2025 Predictions www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/look…
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DOP 331: Looking Back on Our 2025 Predictions
Review 2025 tech predictions vs. reality: why agentic AI dominated the year instead of model improvements, and what's next for AI-powered development tools.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
DOP 330: Merry Christmas (You Should Probably Be Doing Something Else) www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/merr…
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DOP 330: Merry Christmas (You Should Probably Be Doing Something Else)
In this short episode, Darin and Viktor reflect on the holiday season.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
DOP 329: Vibe Coding and the Technical Debt Time Bomb www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/vibe…
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DOP 329: Vibe Coding and The Technical Debt Time Bomb
Explore vibe coding limits vs professional development, technical debt in the AI era, and evolving pair programming with AI agents.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
DOP 328: The Real Cost of Build Versus Buy Decisions www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-…
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DOP 328: The Real Cost of Build Versus Buy Decisions
Learn when to build vs buy technology solutions, avoid not-invented-here syndrome, and balance custom development with vendor solutions.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
DOP 327: When AI Tools Go Rogue www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/when…
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DOP 327: When AI Tools Go Rogue
Learn why autonomous AI agents aren't ready for production and how to prevent AI systems from going rogue in your infrastructure.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
DOP 326: Stop Reinventing the Wheel - Use Dapr Instead www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/stop…
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DOP 326: Stop Reinventing The Wheel - Use Dapr Instead
How Dapr's runtime APIs solve microservices complexity with messaging, state management, and service discovery for cloud portability.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
DOP 325: KubeCon North America 2025 Review www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/kube…
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DOP 325: KubeCon North America 2025 Review
Explore KubeCon 2025 NA’s biggest takeaways on Ingress NGINX deprecation, AI maturation, maintainer burnout, and the future of cloud native ecosystems.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
DOP 324: Kubernetes Resource Right-Sizing and Scaling With Zesty www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/kube…
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DOP 324: Kubernetes Resource Right-Sizing and Scaling with Zesty
Kubernetes 1.33 brings in-place pod resizing for better AI workload management and auto-scaling optimization in cloud vs data center deployments.
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Darin Pope @darinpope.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
DOP 323: The Security Nightmare of Vibe Coding www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/the-…
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DOP 323: The Security Nightmare of Vibe Coding
Exploring vibe coding security risks and when AI-assisted development works vs fails in production environments.
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