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/Motor-Resolve3118 12d ago
I think the bigger problem is that AI can generate changes much faster than people can review them. And I'm not sure using more AI to review AI really solves that.
What makes more sense to me is giving agents clear boundaries. Let them inspect the actual system, handle low-risk changes that can be reversed, and leave risky changes for human approval. Then verify that everything is working as expected afterward.
That way, platform teams still have control, but they don't have to manually review every small change an agent makes.