Changelog Interviews Agentic infra changes everything
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Oct 30, 2025 Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and an expert in infrastructure and DevOps, dives into the transformative power of agentic systems. He examines the implications of the recent AWS outage and discusses how AI is reshaping data center design. The conversation highlights the balance between AI's potential and job displacement for developers. Adam shares real-world examples of agent-driven troubleshooting and advocates for a future where agents connect tools rather than dominate workflows. His insights challenge us to rethink our approach to infrastructure and collaboration.
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Outage Responses Reveal Cultural Regression
- Outages expose tribal blame and cruelty instead of empathy in modern cloud culture.
- Adam Jacob argues outages are inevitable and demand humility, not mortal-combat piling on.
AI Creates New Gravity For Bare Metal
- AI-driven data centers push demand toward bare-metal, high-performance networking and custom compute.
- That shift makes on-prem or hybrid infrastructure economically and architecturally attractive again.
Agent Solved A Full App Integration
- Adam describes an agent adding ElastiCache and auth signing code automatically for a demo app.
- The agent wrote, deployed, and cycled keys, then the system worked end-to-end without manual wiring.