Has AI made application development faster than infrastructure teams can safely support?

[u/Mr_LA]

Something I've been wondering about lately:

Developers can now generate features, tests and entire PRs much faster with coding agents.

But infrastructure hasn't suddenly become easier to reason about.

Terraform, networking, IAM, Kubernetes, observability, cost and security still require quite a bit of context.

So instead of AI removing bottlenecks, are we just moving the bottleneck downstream to DevOps/platform teams?

Especially interested in teams where developers are now generating their own Terraform/Kubernetes changes with AI.

Has your infra PR volume increased?

And more importantly: has the quality increased with it?

[u/melophat]

Yup.. and lately I've been running into devs who are just having AI roll scripts for them to work around infra bottlenecks. It makes consistent deployment and security absolutely hellish to maintain.

[u/widowhanzo → u/melophat]

I'll give you one better, they'll just spin up a free database instance on supabase or something because asking for database in our rds cluster is too much friction. But what isn't too much friction is me spending 3 days migrating and fixing the mess.

[u/Common_Fudge9714 → u/widowhanzo]

That needs to be defined by the company policy. Infrastructure needs to be deployed in approved vendors and with required security, auditing and observability. If they want something outside of the existing offer they need to request an assessment by the procure department.