Chat GPT affects yout ability to think critically! But does it actually make you “dumber,” or does it free up mental bandwidth for more meaningful work?

Together with data scientist Paul Larsen, we unpack recent studies from Microsoft and MIT, real cases from software development and education, and translate it into practical rules: when it’s safe to delegate to AI and when you should deliberately “work the mental muscles” yourself (code review, testing, architectural decisions).

We also touch on the org-level effect: what happens to a team’s skills if engineers become AI babysitters, and how to build proper model monitoring and evaluation instead of endless human-in-the-loop, and what companies can do to minimize risks.

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Data Science 2.0 is the shift from dashboards to decision workflows. Suzanne El-Moursi shows how teams can go beyond “reports nobody trusts” to agentic, governed analytics, using a pragmatic stack (infrastructure → composable tools → governance) so insight can flow from ingestion through modeling, validation, and visualization without the usual stalls. We focus on how the data scientist role evolves from dashboard factory to orchestration and stewardship so the right decision happens at the right time. Also in this episode:

• Problems we face in data in different eras of tech;
• The role of a data scientist in the age of AI;
• What parts of the classic data scientist job fade?
• Who does the data evaluation?
• 3 things to learn right now;
• How to make your project AI agent ready?

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About Suzanne El-Moursi: Co-founder & CEO of Brighthive, a Chicago-based platform building agentic AI for the data lifecycle (BrightAgent) with governance built in; earlier leadership stints at IBM and GE Healthcare; and a board member at Uniting Voices Chicago.

• Brighthive Newsletter on LinkedIn where they share their expertise and observation on the Data Science transformation.
• Follow Suzanne on LinkedIn for more insights.
• Check out Brighthive, Suzanne's company, an AI-powered enterprise data platform that uses coordinated agents to automate the full data lifecycle inside a data warehouse.

Kubernetes alone isn’t enough! This is what we discuss with Mark Fussell, co-creator of Dapr and Diagrid co-founder. How Dapr’s sidecar gives developers clean APIs (pub/sub, service invocation, secrets, state) with tiny overhead? And how durable workflows and “agentic” apps with Dapr Agents actually function? Also in this epsiode:

• A short history of architecture models;
• Differences between service meshes and Dapr;
• Agentic systems and conductors: what is what?
• The future of agentic applications;
• Will the sidecar model go away?

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• Follow Mark on X.
• Follow Mark on Linkedin.
• Regular posts and insights on Dapr and Diagrid.
• State of Dapr Report by CNCF that we discussed during the episode.

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve definitely heard a lot about Vibe Coding. Some drag it through the mud, others meme it to death , some treat it like a guilty pleasure, and then there are those who embrace it openly, seeing it as the future. We decided to dig into the phenomenon and start with the perspective of someone who’s building a product that’s taking Vibe Coding to the next level. Our guest for episode 61 of DevOps Accents is Tammuz Dubnov from AutonomyAI. In this episode:

• How did arrival of LLMs change Machine Learning careeers;
• The pressure of being an AI company;
• Vibe Coding: what to know and what to keep in mind;
• Code quality in LLM training data;
• Preserving context and creating a knowledge base;
• Coding for future developers.

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As you can see, adopting AI into your business isn't always straightforward. Processes shift, impact isn’t always obvious, and change can feel messy. But one thing’s for sure — you can’t afford to ignore it. We help you make sense of it all. Start by talking to our Data & AI experts, they’ll help you figure out where to begin and how to scale smart.

Also, don’t miss our AI Strategy Guide: How to Scale AI Across Your Business, a must-read for anyone making AI decisions.

Show Notes:

• Follow Tammuz on LinkedIn;
• Make sure to check out their tool, the access to the public will be available very soon.

Podcast editing: Mila Jones, [email protected]

Should we pay more attention to our workplace mental health? For episode 60 of DevOps Accents, our guests are Samuele Monasterolo, Lorenzo Grassi and Fabio Ciravegna from Welbemo, an Italian startup for workplace wellbeing assessment. In this episode:

• The beginnings of Welbemo;
• The startup environment in Italy;
• Mental health and wellbeing in the tech industry;
• How can you measure burnout and anxiety?
• Protecting personal employee data from the employer;
• The use of AI and data security in Welbemo.

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• Welbemo: https://www.welbemo.com/
• Fabio Ciravegna, professor from the University of Torino, Co-founder and CIO at Welbemo, on LinkedIn.
• Lorenzo Grassi , Co-founder and CDO at Welbemo, on LinkedIn.
• Samuele Monasterolo, Co-founder & CTO at Welbemo, on LinkedIn.

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In episode 59 of DevOps Accents, friend of the podcast Darko Fabijan is back to talk about the Community Edition of Semaphore CI. Why did Semaphore go Open Source, what had to be done to do so, and what awaits us going forward? In this episode:

• Open Source licensing and community collaboration;
• The impact of Open Source on business and development;
• Infrastructure and security considerations;
• CI/CD tools and market dynamics;
• The future of Open Source.

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• Our guest, Darko Fabijan, on LinkedIn
• Semaphore CI
• Semaphore on GitHub.

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For episode 58 of DevOps Accents, Paul Larsen, our Head of Data & AI, is back at the microphone to discuss EU AI Act and its consequences for businesses big and small. In this episode:

• The speed of implementation of EU AI Act;
• Total AI freedom for defence;
• AI risk categories;
• Understanding AI high risk;
• AI literacy push.

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• What is the EU AI Act, and why does it matter?
• When does the EU AI Act come into force, and what does this mean for your business?
• AI Strategy Guide: How to Scale AI Across Your Business

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In episode 57 of DevOps Accents Alessandro Ceni, Lorenzo Cardini and Pio Scielzo from Teticum join Leo to discuss the new possibilities of AI agents for e-commerce. From identifying the problem to choosing the right tools to the issues you might face implementing your new solution, they take you through a whole journey of their startup. In this episode:

• How to become an entrepreneur?
• What to say to an AI sceptic?
• How to talk to investors about AI?
• AI in e-commerce;
• Upselling and cross-selling;
• The future of AI agents.

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• Alessandro Ceni
• Lorenzo Cardini
• Pio Scielzo
• Their company, Teticum

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Ever feel like Kubernetes is just... too much? You're not alone! This time we're asking the tough questions: Has cloud-native infrastructure, especially Kubernetes, become unnecessarily complex? Is it really fair to expect every developer to become a Kubernetes guru? What's the cost of this complexity?

We're diving into insights from Gerrit Schumann of mogenius, exploring why this complexity is happening. Are we drowning in a sea of ever-evolving tech? Is there a better way? Can self-service platforms actually simplify things? And most importantly, what can we do about it?

In this episode:

• How organizations balance DevOps to developers collaboration?
• The role of specialized tools;
• How should managers set up their teams nowadays?
• The place of platform engineering;
• What will be the future for infra teams?
• Widening the gap between developers and operations.

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• Our guest, Gerrit Schumann, on LinkedIn

• - His company, mogenius 
• How to Prevent Shift-Left Approach From Making Developers' Jobs Harder

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Fraud, scamming, identity theft and synthetic identities: this time on DevOps Accents Leo and Pablo talk these big topics with Katarina Pranjić from LexisNexis Risk Solutions. In this episode:

• How digital revolution reshaped the fraud landscape;
• How to fight fake identities created with AI?
• How does a company fight against targeted AI attacks?
• What are synthetic identities?
• Can we trust our governments with control needed to fight back?

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Show Notes:

• Our guest, Katarina Pranjić, on LinkedIn.
• Her company,LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

DISCLAIMER: The information provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to and shall not be used as legal advice. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker/s and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions does not warrant that the information provided in this podcast is accurate or error-free.

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