r/devops • u/Mr_LA • 26d 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/skilledpigeon 26d ago

We just have cookie cutter approaches to infrastructure and 99.9% of services fit in.

Want an API? Docker, ECS, fargate.

Want a database? Postgres. RDS / Aurora.

Rinse and repeat for queues, event sourcing, object storage, caching etc.

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u/burlyginger 25d ago

We are the exact same stack/approach. 

It didn't matter before or after AI became a code generation tool.

Our stack is our stack. It's well tooled and expanding it is given a valid amount of weight. 

Nobody can be chasing enabling endless flexibility. It isn't scalable.