Code Is No Longer the Asset — Workflows Are

Today I'm doing a LinkedIn Live session called "Copilot Zero to Hero." The goal is to show how I went from basic Copilot autocomplete to a platform where 45+ agents, 63 skills, and 50 cron jobs autonomously maintain themselves — and how anyone can follow the same path.

But here's what I realized while preparing: the journey from zero to hero isn't about learning more features. It's about building three continuous feedback loops that compound on each other. I'm calling them the 3 Pillars of Agentic DevOps.

If you've followed my writing on the agentic development maturity curve , you know the journey isn't linear. The 3 pillars map directly to three maturity levels: Builder , Pro , and Hero . Each pillar unlocks the next. Skip one, and the whole thing wobbles.

The shift that matters: in traditional DevOps, code is the artifact you protect. In agentic DevOps, workflows are the artifact.…