Pre-AI infrastructure packaged features into modules and tools that guided (and limited) how teams deployed their products. Complex Terraform that tried to condense the features of AWS into a few inputs. Custom orchestration software that tried to simplify Kubernetes by removing its flexibility.
Today’s AI enables us to manage even complex infrastructure without these dependencies. Thin Terraform managing the handful of AWS resources needed for one use case. Simple Helm charts managing the Kubernetes manifests required by one app. Basic tools are all you need.
Simplified automation like this usually has higher line counts and some repetition, but it’s easier to understand and maintain.
Simplified automation
- Agents spend fewer tokens tracing it.
- Fewer code paths mean even inexpensive models can trace it without misunderstanding the flow.
- You’re never blocked because you need a feature that isn’t supported in a wrapper. You own all the code, so you can flex it as your needs change.
- Diffs are focused on what’s changing in the infrastructure instead of what’s changing in the interfaces of the wrappers. To review it, you only need to understand the outcome. You don’t need to know how the wrappers work.
If you’re using a wrapper today, migrating away may not be a priority. If what you have is working, we can help keep the lights on. We’ll work with you to get the most value from what you have before investing in change.