DevOps Has a New Branch — And It's Not Optional You know CI. You know CD. Now there's a new acronym muscling its way into the DevOps lexicon: CAI — Continuous AI . And if you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or platform engineer who hasn't started paying attention, you're already behind. This isn't hype. The 2025 DORA Report — now titled "State of AI-assisted Software Development" — surveyed nearly 5,000 technology professionals and found that 90% already use AI in their development workflow . But only 17% use autonomous agents. That gap is where the opportunity lives — and where the danger hides. Teams with strong DevOps foundations see amplified returns from AI adoption. Teams without them see a 7.2% drop in delivery stability . AI doesn't fix broken processes. It magnifies them. In February 2026, GitHub launched Agentic Workflows in technical preview — AI agents running inside GitHub Actions, authored in Markdown instead of YAML.…