I gave an AI eight real DevOps jobs. Here's where it shipped — and where it quietly got it wrong.

For the last couple of months I've been handing an AI agent (Claude Code) real DevOps work

— not toy prompts, but actual failing pipelines, real pull requests, a live Kubernetes

cluster — and filming what happens. Everything ran locally at $0 (no managed API bill), on

real repos, with a human reviewing every change before it merged.

The interesting part was never "look, AI did the thing." It was the seam between where it