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Episode 118: AI Doesn’t Fix Bad DevOps: Lessons from 15 Years of DORA Data, with Nathen Harvey
Episode 118
Wednesday, 21 January, 2026

Coté and Whitney talk with Nathen Harvey, who leads the DORA research program at Google Cloud. They talk about what 15 years of DevOps and delivery data actually says about AI. The answer feels something like "it makes you even better at what you're already good at." High-performing teams get better, while struggling teams just move faster into bottlenecks. The talk about AI-assisted software development, why throughput is rising while stability drops, how culture still beats tools, and why “user-centric” work remains stubbornly hard despite being obvious. You can watch the video version of this episoode in YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H90fXHWwyQk), if you prefer that kind of thing. Check out Nathen in LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathen/). Special Guest: Nathen Harvey.