om experimental hacks to enterprise rollouts, generative AI is becoming a standard part of IaC workflows—bringing speed, structure, and new risks. Generative AI has officially entered the infrastructure as code (IaC) trenches. What started as a bottom-up phenomenon — developers using ChatGPT and Copilot to avoid Googling Terraform syntax or getting bogged down in endless StackExchange threads — has grown into something more complex and widespread. Today, organizations are embracing AI as a...

AI coding tools are reshaping how developers tackle tech debt. But human judgment is still essential to understanding crucial context. IT leaders know they must eventually deal with technical debt, but because addressing it doesn’t always directly result in increased revenue or new capabilities, it can be difficult to get business management to take it seriously. But technical debt can undercut an organization’s ability to innovate long term, and the shortcuts taken during initial development...