In today’s enterprise software delivery environment, AI has moved from a distant possibility to an active area of experimentation across the CI/CD pipeline. The conversation around AI in software delivery often runs ahead of the underlying reality, and most organizations are still working through what it takes to operationalize AI inside delivery architectures that were built long before AI was a practical consideration.
Techstrong polled its community of DevOps, platform engineering and software delivery professionals to understand where AI adoption in CI/CD really stands, where it is being applied today, and what is standing in the way of broader operationalization. Our findings reveal that active interest is running ahead of operational readiness, with most organizations either experimenting in isolated areas or beginning to expand AI use in selected parts of the pipeline, while fragmented toolchains, governance concerns and integration complexity remain the primary barriers to scale.
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Written byGuy CurrierChief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces at The Futurum Group. Guy is responsible for positioning, go-to-market, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs-xPUs, and systems lifecycle management. Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. He lives and works in Austin, TX. Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. He lives and works in Austin, TX.