My understanding is that devops are the veteran admin, only now they check-in their code.

What it was supposed to be -

Software development, deployment and ops come under the same role. The DevOps engineer controls the horizontal and the vertical, the code, the environment, the build, the deployment, and as such is a multi-talented unicorn.

What it seems to have become - Sysadmins writing scripts around terraform, and formalising their work to the extent that it is at least usually reproducible.

> a multi-talented unicorn.

That's not necessary. Natural curiosity and willingness to treat dev/ops (whichever is not your team) as us, not them, is sufficient.

I'm not sure I've seen that be any more prevalent now than it was when we had developers and sysadmins.

To me it's become like 'agile' and interesting set of viewpoints and philosophies totally ruined by the industry that's grown around it.

Well, at least the DevOps industry brings actual value to the process (well, not when you are sold OpenStack, OpenShift, Vault and whatever else to run a single container image).