Vibe DevEx: Can Intent-Based Chatbots Fix the "Department of No"?
Submitted to DevOpsDays Berlin 2026 (earlier round). Rejected .
Abstract
We've spent a decade trying to give developers "autonomy" by handing them a drawer full of sharp knives: complex CLIs, endless YAML, and direct access to infrastructure. Predictably, everyone is bleeding. Somehow "Self-Service," turned into "Self-Harm."
Platform teams usually respond by locking the drawer and becoming the "Department of No." But what if we replaced the knives with a conversation?
This session explores "Vibe-Driven Platform Engineering." I'll walk through an experiment testing whether a minimal AI chat interface can handle the four horsemen of enterprise friction: deploying an app, configuring a service, diagnosing a failure, and compliance and security .
Instead of config, can a developer use chat to deploy their app?
We'll find out if "vibe deploying" is the future of the Internal Developer Platform, or just a very expensive way to let a chatbot hallucinate your production environment.
Text taken from Coté's Sessionize speaker library on 2026-08-10, not captured at submission time. Sessionize keeps one abstract per talk and reuses it for every event that talk is pitched to, so this is the talk's text as it stands now - it may have been edited since this particular submission.