Building AI Agents and Assistants for DevOps Workflows

Explore the differences between AI agents and assistants through practical DevOps examples in this 38-minute conference talk presented by Lee Faus from GitLab at All Things Open AI 2025. Learn how to integrate assistants into open source projects like continue.dev using open source LLMs served from Ollama. Discover how these AI tools can reduce toil across the software supply chain, benefiting various roles from product managers to release managers. The presentation demonstrates techniques for connecting assistants and agents using LangChain, Bee, and LlamaIndex with RAGs to enhance collaboration and streamline communication in development workflows.