The Next DevOps Frontier: Governing Models, Agents And Code
devops.com, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Anaconda CEO David DeSanto explores what it takes to make AI-native development practical, secure and scalable for modern engineering teams.
DeSanto reflects on his journey from leading product at GitLab to stepping into the CEO role at Anaconda, and why the next wave of software delivery will be shaped by the intersection of open source, DevOps practices and AI governance.
Software is increasingly assembled rather than written. With dependencies pulled from countless repositories, the software supply chain has become one of the largest sources of risk-especially as attackers target packages and organizations push more workloads into production faster. DeSanto explains how trust, curation and reproducibility matter when teams are depending on thousands of third-party components to build and ship applications.