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Most of the sysadmin and devops team have been downsized in India because of AI.

Basically, now it's trivial for any new devops guy to run such a query in Claude Code:

“Log in to this production server, find out all services it runs and their deployment method, create documentation about everything, and generate a repeatable, auditable deployment workflow.”

Devops and sysadmins can no longer withhold information to maintain job security.

Boom, 80% of the team gone.

I know companies are doing migrations of production Postgres and MySQL on 1000s of machines using AI agents.

I’m imagining how many SaaS will be automated out and simply be an "agent skill" in ClaudeCode.

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Can you support this claim with some evidence? Not just about the redundancies, but I’m also particularly interested in hard data showing Claude is capable of doing that kind of research with near 100% verifiable accuracy and migrations with no data loss and equivalent functionality (which is required to sustain your claim).

is most sysadmins and devops capable of 100% verifiable accuracy? you over estimate average skill level available in market.

You’re redirecting. You made the claim that this is happening; it’s your burden to back it up.

> Devops and sysadmins can no longer withhold information to maintain job security.

I can't imagine this is very prevalent. That's a very 2004-style corporate immaturity; I get the sense that even the slow-moving behemoths of the software world have mostly caught up to, say ... 2017's recognition of the importance of automation and reproducibility and won't tolerate the kind of malpractice you describe--wilful information siloing by infrastructure teams.

Like, those businesses might well suck at automation! But they've been doing it and firing the people who resist it for a long while now.

Epic. Can't wait for those humans to be rehired after you find out that letting Claude perform 1000s of migrations autonomously is a bad idea

Only downsized? I would expect them to cease to exist entirely in the coming years, as western companies begin to realize that AI is cheaper and more competent than the Indian firms they usually outsource work to.

I can't wait to see what these companies will be willing to pay real humans to clean up the mess they will have made– if they survive.

What about the 80% of teams? Are there enough trenches to dig in the country for them to make a living?

You forgot "make no mistakes" and "don't hallucinate" and "don't delete any important files" as well, those are important.

I found that, without that, Claude makes too many critical mistakes.

"Ooops, that's my bad. Nothing that I documented was what I said it was. You're right to be frustrated by this. I promise I won't mess this up next time."

And when it goes wrong, production is down, until they can get a real devops to look at what shit the AI-only guys did wrong. Haha, no serious shop would act like that, but then again most shops are not serious, now are they? So you might have a point.

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