Darin Pope@DarinPope

Software Developer and Podcast co-host of @DevOpsParadox

 Melissa, TX
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Joined June 2008
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DOP 369: Vibe Coding Without the Slop devopsparadox.com/episodes/v…

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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DOP 368: The AI Productivity Paradox devopsparadox.com/episodes/t…

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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DOP 367: Zero-Human Companies Still Need Humans devopsparadox.com/episodes/z…

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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DOP 366: How to Prevent npm Supply Chain Attacks devopsparadox.com/episodes/h…

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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DOP 365: What the DORA AI ROI Report Really Says devopsparadox.com/episodes/w…

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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DOP 364: How to Avoid Burnout as a Leader devopsparadox.com/episodes/h…

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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DOP 363: Is Your Website Agent-Ready? devopsparadox.com/episodes/i…

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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DOP 362: Feature Flags vs Canary Deployments devopsparadox.com/episodes/f…

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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DOP 361: When Code Got Cheap, Reviewing Got Expensive devopsparadox.com/episodes/w…

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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DOP 360: What Is an AI SRE? devopsparadox.com/episodes/w…
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DOP 359: Demos in the Age of AI Agents devopsparadox.com/episodes/d…

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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DOP 358: Just-in-Time Access for AI Agents devopsparadox.com/episodes/j…

DOP 358: Just-in-Time Access for AI Agents

Just-in-time access for humans and AI agents - why static permissions break at machine speed, and what dynamic, real-time access could look like.

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DOP 357: What Is Spec-Driven Development? devopsparadox.com/episodes/w…

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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DOP 356: Warehouse Robots Are a Distributed System devopsparadox.com/episodes/w…

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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DOP 354: Your Dead Founder Trains New Hires devopsparadox.com/episodes/y…

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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DOP 353: A Person Owns It Not the AI devopsparadox.com/episodes/a…

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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DOP 352: No-Code Is the Guardrail Vibe Coding Needs devopsparadox.com/episodes/n…

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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DOP 351: The Developer Job Market in the Age of AI devopsparadox.com/episodes/t…

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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DOP 350: Context Is the New Bottleneck, Not Code devopsparadox.com/episodes/c…

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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DOP 349: Shadow AI Is Going to Be a Thousand Times Worse Than Shadow IT devopsparadox.com/episodes/s…

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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