Insights on applying agentic AI to DevOps and software development automation, by practitioners at Sirob Technologies — the team behind B.O.R.I.S, the context layer for infrastructure. https://getboris.ai
AI adoption stalls when licenses and quotas replace trust, context, and verification. Fernando Gonçalves and Vladimir Samoylov explain how DevOps makes agentic coding safe to scale through checkable starter tasks, organization-specific context, independent tests, Terraform plans, and deterministic gates—while exposing why token metrics, AI-written tests, and advisory Markdown can create false confidence. Episode page (show notes and links): https://getboris.ai/insights/016-how-devops-makes-ai-safe-to-scale/
#15 — Can Origin and Entire Replace GitHub?
GitHub outages and agent-scale workloads are exposing the limits of centralized development platforms—learn where Cursor Origin and Entire could help, and which bottlenecks they cannot fix. Andrey Devyatkin, Vladimir Samoylov, and Fernando Gonçalves examine AI-native Git forges, distributed mirrors, API and Actions limits, repository sovereignty, and whether Git is even the real constraint. They weigh agent-scale throughput claims against human review, CI, internet bandwidth, and the token cost of best-of-N agent fleets, asking whether teams need to leave GitHub or simply reduce their dependen
#14 — Loop Engineering in DevOps
Loop engineering solves the coding-agent babysitting problem by giving DevOps teams a way to run larger tasks with evidence, constraints, and a clear definition of done. Andrey Devyatkin, Vladimir Samoylov, and Fernando Gonçalves unpack outer loops around agents, context-window limits, unattended runs, greenfield versus brownfield work, alert batching with SNS and SQS, model mixing, token costs, and why bad code still gets worse when you automate it faster. Episode page (show notes and links): https://getboris.ai/insights/014-loop-engineering-in-devops/
#13 — cmux vs iTerm with Viktor Vedmich
cmux terminal workflows: when iTerm slows down AI-agent work, Viktor Vedmich shows how workspaces, session restore, and socket APIs make Claude Code more practical. Andrey Devyatkin and Fernando Gonçalves talk with Viktor Vedmich about his terminal-first agentic stack, Obsidian vault setup, Claude Code on Bedrock, AWS Kiro, spec-driven workflows, MCP search tools, rising token bills, and why open-weight model competition matters for DevOps teams. Episode page (show notes and links): https://getboris.ai/insights/013-cmux-vs-iterm-with-viktor-vedmich/
#12 — Semantic Layers, Context Layers, and Agents That Stop Guessing
Two terms keep colliding in infrastructure AI: semantic layer and context layer. They're not the same thing, and conflating them is how teams end up with agents that understand vocabulary but have no idea what's actually running — or agents that know the environment but still guess wrong about what the data means. Episode page (show notes and links): https://getboris.ai/insights/012-semantic-layers-context-layers-and-agents-that-stop-guessing/
#11 — Base of Record for Intelligent Systems
The hosts of Agentic AI in DevOps make the case that the "second brain" idea — long a personal-productivity meme — is exactly what AI agents need to be useful inside a real engineering environment. Without a system of reference, the agent burns its context window rediscovering what is running where, hallucinates the gaps, and needs credentials it should not have. The episode also marks a pivot: B.O.R.I.S is no longer pitched as a replacement DevOps engineer, but as a context layer for engineering systems — and the acronym now stands for Base of Record for Intelligent Systems. Fernando Gonçalve
#10 — What Changed in Our Daily AI Workflow
In a less-structured episode, the hosts of Agentic AI in DevOps compare day-to-day workflows: what they actually run, what they have stopped doing, and how their habits have shifted since the early autumn. Fernando Gonçalves keeps the classical engineering ritual — linting, tests, coverage targets — and bakes it into a skill so the AI cannot skip past quiet bugs. Vladimir Samoylov has rewired the harness with hooks for audit logs, command-failure journals, and a daily "dead code" sweep, and tracks a new personal metric: average working hours without a human. Andrey Devyatkin argues that the se
#9 — Code with Claude: Routines, Agents, and the AWS Catch
Anthropic's Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco on May 6, 2026 dropped a wave of platform features aimed squarely at coding teams, and the hosts walk through what actually matters for builders. Andrey Devyatkin reads the SpaceX–Anthropic compute deal as one of the cleverest business moves of the year — xAI is sitting on underutilized GPUs, and "the enemy of my enemy" gets to raise everyone's usage limits. The episode dissects routines, outcomes/goals, multi-agent orchestration, the advisor pattern, dreaming, and the new Anthropic-on-AWS path that is *not* Bedrock, with Ferna
#8 — DevOps Jobs Agentic AI Can Actually Do
After seven foundation-laying episodes, the hosts of Agentic AI in DevOps take the practitioner's tour: which DevOps jobs agentic AI actually does well, and which still fight back. Andrey Devyatkin reframes the "AI deleted my production database" headlines, arguing they are functionally identical to "my terminal deleted my database" — the human gave the credentials and confirmed the action — and walks through why infrastructure-as-code is harder for agents than application code (one word: state). The hosts dig into the gap between C-suite adoption claims and practitioner reality, with Fernando
#7 — Agent Memory: When It Helps, When It Hurts, and How to Manage It
Your AI agent just forgot everything. Again. You taught it your stack, your conventions, your preferences — and tomorrow it wakes up like it never happened. Memory is supposed to fix that. Here's what nobody tells you: it can also make things worse. This blog post breaks down exactly how agent memory works, when it helps, when it quietly poisons your sessions, and what to do about it. Episode page (show notes and links): https://getboris.ai/insights/007-when-agent-memory-helps-and-when-it-hurts/
#6 — The Big AI Squeeze
LLM subsidies are drying up, subscription limits are tightening, and the astronomical data center CapEx has to be paid by someone — spoiler: it is you. In this episode, Fernando Gonçalves, Andrey Devyatkin, and Vladimir Samoylov tackle what they call "the big squeeze": the two-sided pressure of rising AI costs and emerging local-inference technologies that could reshape how teams budget for and deploy AI. Along the way, they debate whether buying a Mac Mini is a rational investment or just hype, reveal the mental gymnastics required to get meaningful work out of a twenty-dollar subscription, a
#5 — Stop Your Agent Before It Breaks Prod
Imagine your agent just deleted a production database — could you have stopped it? The hosts argue that yes, three lines of bash in a single hook could have prevented it, and yet most teams have never configured one. In this episode, Andrey Devyatkin, Vladimir Samoylov, and Fernando Gonçalves pull apart the agentic loop — the repeating cycle of reason, act, observe that makes coding agents appear to "think" — and show exactly where hooks slot in to give humans deterministic or automated harness-level control over non-deterministic AI behavior, depending on the hook type. Along the way, they un
#4 — Harness Engineering: What Claude Code Accidentally Taught Everyone
A packaging mistake exposed Claude Code's full source tree to the world — and instead of scandal, the community got a masterclass in how agentic coding tools actually work under the hood. In this episode, Andrey Devyatkin, Vladimir Samoylov, and Fernando Gonçalves unpack what the disclosure revealed about the engineering behind coding agents, introduce the emerging discipline of "harness engineering," and argue that the model is only the horsepower — it is the harness that determines whether the agent gallops toward the right destination or off a cliff. Along the way, they weigh in on NVIDIA's
#3 — Skills, Powers, SOPs
What happens when your AI coding tool quietly starts billing like a cloud service — and your team burns through a thousand dollars in a week? Vladimir Samoylov returns as the hosts share their sticker-shock moment with Cursor's new pricing before diving into agent skills. From Claude Code skills to Kiro Powers to AWS Strands SOPs, the naming varies but the idea is the same — plugging structured knowledge into an agent's brain on demand. Episode page (show notes and links): https://getboris.ai/insights/003-skills-powers-sops/
#2 — The Tool Layer: What Makes Agentic AI Possible
What happens when your AI coding assistant forgets what it was just working on? Andrey Devyatkin and Fernando Gonçalves break down context windows, how MCP servers can consume a large share of the session before the first message, and why over-specifying agent behavior in project rules often hurts output. Episode page (show notes and links): https://getboris.ai/insights/002-the-tool-layer-what-makes-agentic-ai-possible/
#1 — AI in DevOps, 2022 to 2026: From Autocomplete to Action
What if most AI tools sold into DevOps fail because they only see part of the stack? In this first episode of Agentic AI in DevOps, Andrey Devyatkin and Fernando Gonçalves trace AI tooling from ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 through 2025: they treat context—not model hype—as the constraint, and explain why assistants cut off from source, logs, metrics, and docs tend to guess wrong under real operational load. Episode page (show notes and links): https://getboris.ai/insights/001-ai-in-devops-2022-to-2026-from-autocomplete-to-action/