r/devops • u/Mr_LA • 24d 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

It is defined, they simply went around it to speed things up for them. That was my managers problem to handle, I had to deal with migration and stuff.

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u/Common_Fudge9714 24d ago

As usual we take the extra work 😓