From someone who has managed both Developmentals team and Operations team for decades.. trust me, they are different beasts and have to be handled/tackled differently.

Expecting Devs or Ops to do both types of work, is usually asking for trouble, unless the organization is geared up from the ground up for such seamless work. It is more of a corporate problem, rather than a team working style or work expectations & behavior problem.

The same goes for Agile vs Waterfall. Agile works well if the organization is inherently (or overhauled to be) agile, otherwise it doesn't.

> You are far better off with people that can work together across the bridge, but that requires actual mutual trust and respect, and we’re not able to do that.

Are you claiming it's fundamentally impossible for people to get along, or just that positive interpersonal relationships can't be reliably forced at scale?

I mean, look at Kubernetes though. You have to understand both the application and the infrastructure in order to get the deployment right. Especially in any instance of having to pin the runtime to any type of resource (certain disk writing, GPUs, etc).

You don't need 10x developers. You just need to avoid the 1/10 multiplier of pitting separate development and operations teams against each other.