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How AI is Changing IT Work for Sysadmins

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07/16/2026
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Do you think it's made things better? Do you think we're on a good course or do you think like IT, do you not like the direction that we're headed? We're going to ignore the elephant in the room right now, because we all know what that is. But let's say 15 years ago, in the SMB space, multi-host, SAN, networking, virtualizing that suddenly became a thing that was regularly happening in SMB. Say 10 years ago, there was a hard push, probably even closer to that 15, frankly, to get everything into the cloud. And it's been nonstop, get everything into the cloud for 10, 12 years at this point. One of the things that I see as a bright side to that is you can go and offload some of your resiliency requirements to someone that has more resources. You're absolutely paying for that. But if you don't have the resources on hand in your personnel to be able to build out those solutions and have control over it, well, it's certainly a good thing that that is an available thing. I don't think it's right for everybody. Now, obviously, as of five years ago, AI has become a thing. And really this year, it's become a sudden, this thing works. It still makes mistakes, but it's in use suddenly by everybody who works in IT or who works in programming to some level. It may not be your companion day in and day out, but it can write code and get you the experienced person 90% of the way you tweak it. And that eight-hour coding job was turned into one or two. So I think that that is also a good thing. And I think that the pros outweigh the cons in a lot of ways for that.

TL;DR

  • The IT industry has undergone three major shifts in 15 years: SMB virtualization, cloud adoption, and now practical AI — each reshaping how sysadmins and developers work.
  • Cloud computing is framed as a useful but not universal solution, best suited for organizations that lack the internal resources to build resilient infrastructure themselves.
  • AI coding assistance is described as a genuine productivity multiplier, capable of reducing an eight-hour development task to one or two hours for experienced practitioners.

Summary

In this short-form clip, a PDQ speaker reflects on how the IT industry has evolved over the past 15 years, tracing three major shifts: the rise of virtualization and SAN networking in the SMB space, the sustained push toward cloud adoption, and the recent emergence of practical AI tooling. The speaker takes a measured but optimistic stance, acknowledging that cloud migration is not universally appropriate but offers genuine value for organizations that lack the internal resources to build and maintain resilient infrastructure on their own. On AI, the speaker argues that while the technology still makes mistakes, it has crossed a threshold of real-world usefulness — particularly for coding tasks. The key claim is that AI can get an experienced IT professional or developer 90% of the way through a task, compressing what might have been an eight-hour coding job into one or two hours. The overall tone is pragmatic and positive: the speaker believes the pros of both cloud and AI outweigh the cons for most IT practitioners, framing these shifts as net improvements to the industry rather than threats to the profession.

Chapters

0:00 - IT Industry Evolution Overview
0:16 - SMB Virtualization and Cloud Push
1:12 - AI as a Practical IT Tool
1:49 - Pros Outweigh the Cons

Key Quotes

0:44 "One of the things that I see as a bright side to that is you can go and offload some of your resiliency requirements to someone that has more resources."
1:10 "I don't think it's right for everybody."
1:34 "It can write code and get you the experienced person 90% of the way you tweak it."
1:45 "That eight-hour coding job was turned into one or two."

FAQ

Is the speaker saying AI will replace IT professionals?

No. The speaker frames AI as a productivity tool for experienced practitioners, not a replacement. The claim is that AI handles roughly 90% of a coding task, with the human still required to review, tweak, and finalize the output.

Does the speaker think cloud adoption has been a net positive for IT?

Mostly yes, with caveats. The speaker acknowledges cloud offloads resiliency requirements to providers with more resources, but notes organizations pay for that convenience and that cloud is not the right fit for everyone.

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