AI In DevOps Shifts From Faster Delivery To Smarter Decisions
theCUBE research, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
With 73% of large enterprises viewing DevOps as essential to digital transformation, organizations are under pressure to streamline delivery, manage technical debt, and now leverage AI to make better product decisions, not just ship faster.
In this episode of AppDevANGLE, I spoke with Martin Gaston, Principal Engineer and Consultant at 8th Light, about what's actually changing in enterprise DevOps as AI becomes embedded across the SDLC and why process discipline, trust, and end-to-end flow matter more than ever.
DevOps Isn't 'Done' Yet
Martin opened with a hard reality check: many enterprises still haven't fully operationalized DevOps as we've historically defined it.
'A ton of enterprise companies are still struggling to not organize themselves around a very partitioned org chart,' he told me. 'Conway's Law is still very much in effect.'