"IaC is dead": AI will manage infra changes, and Datadog-style UIs may suffer
thedealdirector · x · 2026-11-01
- James Ward argues IaC is dead: with a system's source code plus its infra, AI has everything needed to determine change sets, approvals, and dev env lensing — no human-written infra code required.
- He says DevOps/SRE/cloud engineers face the same roller coaster developers already have, and suggests Effect Oriented Programming may help codebases adapt.
- thedealdirector adds that this is a big deal for observability tools leaning on human-facing UIs like Datadog and Grafana, since AI could manage infra change directly.
- The attached screenshot shows Glassdoor reviews from a company's former sales employees complaining about a sweatshop culture and high turnover (3.6/3.1 stars), with an unclear link to the IaC thread.
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