Can AI Generate Functional Terraform?

Nope.

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I posted the other day about this topic, and I am intrigued by the possibilities. I’m certainly interested in the ways that you can use it for infrastructure, and the article in that post offers a somewhat-different use case for AI-generated Terraform: cloud migrations and multi-cloud solutions. But I’d by lying if I said I wasn’t very skeptical of the code that it writes.

With all that on my mind, I appreciate the analysis in this article: “Can AI Generate Functional Terraform?” by Rak Siva.

I’d add mainly that GenAI is currently about as useful as a very junior developer, and that’s probably because they’re both doing the same thing: Google the results and copy-paste without really understanding.

Then again, if you’ll indulge a quickly-emerged cliché: none of us saw any of this coming just five years ago.