I didn&#x27;t realise I was offensive, sorry. If operations is moving towards being automated by software it&#x27;s only natural to want to move more towards programming side.<p>I&#x27;m not saying this a bad thing, only natural. If infrastructure people see traditional server management moving towards automated deployments&#x2F;monitoring&#x2F;automated server setup. Then a lot of them would want to move into those skills, which a lot did.<p>Is there anything wrong in wanting to cross-functional? Most DevOps people are developers who automate infrastructure, or Infrastructure people who move into programming so they can automate.<p>You need to have both to be really good at it. That&#x27;s what crossfunctional means.<p>Btw I am actually devops, and I&#x27;ve been working on it for a few years.