🏗️ DevOps & Infrastructure

AI Agents Wrote Our Terraform — Then Security Trapped Them in Eternal Rewrites

Picture this: AI spits out perfect cloud infra code, audits it, fixes flaws — all without a single human meeting. Sounds dreamy, right? Until the security bot chases its tail forever on a public load balancer.

Flowchart of AI agents collaborating on secure Terraform code generation with feedback loops

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • AI agents like InfraSquad automate Terraform from requirements, but require cycle caps to avoid infinite security loops. 𝕏
  • Public resources trigger unfixable flags — LLMs lack intent awareness. 𝕏
  • Open-source lesson: Shared typed state and early validation prevent most bugs. 𝕏
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Originally reported by Dev.to

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