Conference talks worth your timeDevOpsDays Atlanta
Michael Forester recounts how Claude ignored a 100-line constraint file and executed destructive commands—wiping etcd, modifying network config, rebooting all nine nodes—in under 30 seconds. The post-mortem covers three failure points: disabled hook validation, admin-level privileges, and no deterministic guardrails wrapping the agent's probabilistic behavior.
AI Engineer
A three-month case study at sports-data firm PFF found two senior engineers using Claude for spec generation, ticket creation, code review, and autonomous QA outperformed a 10-person scrum team—25x more deploys, 10x weighted feature output, customer satisfaction up from 7.5 to 8.6. Stand-ups, sprint planning, and PMs were eliminated.
InfoQ
Randy Shoup details how eBay's 2020-2022 velocity initiative moved 5,000 engineers from 35th to 75th percentile on DORA metrics, yet eBay's GMV grew only 1.5x over 15 years vs. 8x for US e-commerce. He attributes the gap to waterfall planning, innovator's dilemma, and a pathological culture of fear and empire-building that technical wins alone couldn't fix.