The Spirit of Curiosity | Randy Bias on the Coming Decade of AI Operations

The entire industry is teaching AI to write code. Almost no one is teaching it to run the systems that code lives on. That gap is the biggest open opportunity in infrastructure right now.In Episode 3 of The Root Cause, Priyank Upadhyay sits down with Randy Bias  VP of Technology & Strategy at Mirantis, co-author of "Pets vs Cattle," inaugural board director of the OpenStack Foundation, and founder of Cloud Scaling (acquired by EMC). Randy was early to the internet, early to the cloud, and is now early to what he believes is the next world-altering shift: AI-assisted operations.We get into why operators carry 80–90% toil while the tooling ignores them, why founders without operational scars struggle to serve them, the difference between a "sandbox" and a "playground" for agents, why operations is fundamentally a team sport, the one job you can never hand to an agent (judgment), and why domain expertise is the only real moat left in an AI-leveled world.The Root Cause is an original series by RubixKube — Site Reliability Intelligence: see more, plan better, act safely, and learn with every incident. Platform: https://rubixkube.ai Community (Slack): https://rubixkube.ai (see footer)  #AIOps #SRE #SiteReliabilityIntelligence #DevOps #Kubernetes #RandyBias #CloudNative #AIagents