The End of CI/CD Pipelines: The Dawn of Agentic DevOps

AI agents are replacing traditional CI/CD pipelines by autonomously debugging tests, deploying code, and triaging production incidents—GitHub Copilot and Azure SRE Agent already do this. The shift promises real velocity gains: backlogs clear themselves, flaky tests get fixed without human intervention, and toil evaporates. But agents introduce opaque failure modes, runaway feedback risks, and auditability gaps.