There was lot of lofty ideas around devops/pe and the like but ime the grim reality is that in most of managers’ heads it’s basically “tools that product engs don’t want to be concerned with” and like i said current models are really really good at this. Also disagree on the mental model thing - give opus 4.7 or latest codex access to your code, design mds and your logging mcp - in five minutes it will be better at debugging production issues than 90% of platform engineers I’ve worked with. It is truly over