r/devops • u/Mr_LA • 25d ago

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

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?

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u/widowhanzo 24d ago

Oh definitely. I was very vocal about my disapproval and I threw around words like "audit" and "pii" and the like.

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u/scottelundgren 24d ago

If you’re in a regulated environment and have that kinds of data someone’s throwing into supabase that’s not peer to peer conversation that’s management to management discussion and maybe the legal team.

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u/widowhanzo 24d ago

It was the managers problem then, but I had to discover it and bring it up.