Vibe-Coded Infrastructure: How to Ship Fast Without Torching Production (opens in new tab)

You described what you wanted in plain English, the model wrote the Terraform, you ran apply, and it worked. No docs, no Stack Overflow, no fighting HCL syntax for an hour. That's vibe coding — building by describing intent and riding the model's output — and for infrastructure it is genuinely, addictively fast. It's also how you accidentally terraform destroy a production VPC at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday. I run production OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Terraform for a living, and I vibe-code a lot of ...