Changelog Master Feed Agentic infra changes everything (Changelog Interviews #664)
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Oct 30, 2025 Adam Jacob, founder of Chef and System Initiative, dives into the transformative power of agentic systems for managing infrastructure. He shares insights on the recent AWS outage and its implications for empathy in engineering. The discussion touches on AI-driven data center design, home lab tooling, and the future of programming with AI-native languages. Adam also debates whether we're witnessing an AI bubble and explains how agents can enhance developer workflows without replacing them, ultimately emphasizing the need for open ecosystems in tech.
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Empathy Over Blame For Cloud Outages
- Outages expose cultural and generational gaps in how engineers respond and judge failures.
- Adam Jacob urges empathy and warns you cannot engineer away every unexpected failure.
AI Drives Cloud Repatriation Momentum
- AI-driven workloads create gravity toward on-prem, bare-metal, high-performance datacenters.
- That shift will push new deployment patterns and different application designs, not a 1996 rewind.
Agents Collapse Dev And Infra Loops
- Agents let you work on source code and infrastructure in the same context window, changing the development loop.
- That combined loop enables far faster end-to-end delivery and debugging than traditional tooling.
