Infrastructure as Code is gone. Infrastructure as Conversation is here

Infrastructure as Code is gone. Infrastructure as Conversation is here

While this is not news at all since natural language use for generating Infrastructure as Code has been going on for the last 3+ years, the title is a depiction of the reality that is taking shape alongside and in-sync with the evolution and progress of foundation models. It's true that the foundation models, specifically Large Language Models (LLM), including the recent reasoning type LLMs, are still not quite ready to produce production-ready code on their own, the state of the AI coding assistant industry has improved the output quality so much in recent months by using several hybrid techniques to augment foundation models with fine-tuned, domain-specific or domain-adapted models, as well as leveraging workflows orchestrating a plethora of tools. Some scenarios are even leveraging non-Transformer architecture-based AI along with custom machince learning (ML) worflows for training and inference. As more effort is now being devoted to R&D vs. hype, we're seeing incredible progress, especially great results from our own R&D lab, which we've been showcasing in our products....

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