AI is moving from code generation into operations, but production systems cannot be safely run as open-ended conversations with probabilistic agents.

This keynote explores a practical operating model for the AI era: keep the core declarative, deterministic, policy-aware, and continuously reconciled. Let humans define intent, let AI reason and assist, and let controllers turn that intent into reliable behavior.

We will look at how intelligent control planes can connect desired state, actual state, operational knowledge, and validation without turning infrastructure into magic.

The future of DevOps is not letting AI operate everything. It is knowing where AI should stop, and where the reconcile loop should begin.