I let an AI agent make an infrastructure change

Description and use

<h1> I let an AI agent make an infrastructure change </h1> <p>An AI agent recently took an infrastructure ticket from "please create these queues" to deployed and tested.</p> <p>It also:</p> <ul> <li>found a bug I would probably have shipped;</li> <li>briefly broke a consumer;</li> <li>confidently gave me the wrong explanation for some infrastructure versus code drift.</li> </ul> <p>All three were useful.</p> <p>The first one showed me what agents can do.</p> <p>The other two showed me what they need before you let them touch infrastructure.</p> <h2> The ticket </h2> <p>Typical BAU ticket:</p>

Problem

<h1> I let an AI agent make an infrastructure change </h1> <p>An AI agent recently took an infrastructure ticket from "please create these queues" to deployed and tested.</p> <p>It also:</p> <ul> <li>found a bug I would probably have shipped;</li> <li>briefly broke a consumer;</li> <li>confidently gave me the wrong explanation for some infrastructure versus code drift.</li> </ul> <p>All three were useful.</p> <p>The first one showed me what agents can do.</p> <p>The other two showed me what they need before you let them touch infrastructure.</p> <h2> The ticket </h2> <p>Typical BAU ticket:</p>

Outcome

<h1> I let an AI agent make an infrastructure change </h1> <p>An AI agent recently took an infrastructure ticket from "please create these queues" to deployed and tested.</p> <p>It also:</p> <ul> <li>found a bug I would probably have shipped;</li> <li>briefly broke a consumer;</li> <li>confidently gave me the wrong explanation for some infrastructure versus code drift.</li> </ul> <p>All three were useful.</p> <p>The first one showed me what agents can do.</p> <p>The other two showed me what they need before you let them touch infrastructure.</p> <h2> The ticket </h2> <p>Typical BAU ticket:</p>

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I let an AI agent make an infrastructure change

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