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Re:Nobody knows how the whole system works by Spivak on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:35AM (#46947268)
The LLMs are fantastic at writing terraform when you tell it what to do which is a huge timesaver, but good heavens is it terrible at actually knowing what pieces need to be wired up for anything but the simplest cases. Job security for now I guess?
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Re:Nobody knows how the whole system works by raw_anon_1111 on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:44AM (#46947428)
I was able to one shot CDK, Terraform and CloudFormation on my last three projects respectively (different clients - different IAC). But I was really detailed about everything I needed and I fed ChatGPT the diagram.

I guess I could be more detailed in the prompt/md files about every time it changes lambda code, check the permissions in the corresponding IAC and check to see if a new VPC endpoint is needed.

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