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This is fabulous. It captures the feeling of being in the cathedral quite well - it fully transported me back to that spot. Great work!

It works great. If you think of it as 'dropping all the reasons we chose IaC', then yes - that's obviously dumb. If you think of it as 'getting all those benefits, plus faster feed…

Yeah, in all sorts of ways. You can look at it in a Grid of components. You can look at it in a Map, seeing all the relationships. You can look at it via an API. You can have an AI…

Right - obviously, if you need the actual code deployed to run your test, there is not much anyone can do about that. But let me tell you how you would set that up, from scratch, i…

Nope. Terraform/OpenTofu state has several big differences. The first is that Terraform/Tofu can drift. This is why people suffer when a change gets made outside of IaC, and the st…

For what it's worth, that means hitting the 'apply' button in System Initiative. It's a totally viable workflow - it's not either or, it's 'and'.

It's absolutely AWS focused today - but one upside of the approach is that building the models is straightforward, because we can build a pipeline that goes from the upstream's spe…

That's cool. For what it's worth, the software is all open source, precisely because it's critical in this way. I realize that's like telling you that you can take care of this pup…

You should check out the site again today - I think it will help at least at a high level of what it's like to use System Initiative today. We didn't recreate the AWS API. Rather t…

And yes, there is no more IaC under the hood. However! Folks with big IaC deployments can still use all the discovery and troubleshooting goodness, and then make the change however…

Nope - I mean we make a 1:1 model of the real resource, and then let you propose changes to that data model. Rather than thinking of it like code in a file, think of it like having…

Ryan can give you more details about his own experience. (I'm the CEO of System Initiative) But a lot of it comes from switching to a model where you work with an AI agent alongsid…

We're being intentionally pragmatic here. If you're building a digital twin of, say, an F1 car - the complexity of the simulator has to be very high. It's more like building a mock…

1. I'm sympathetic to your doubt - I had the exact same doubts, and part of why it's taken us so long to build is we refused to sacrifice what was good about IaC to get "simplicity…

Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it.

To your first question, adding what we call management components is high on the to-do list. They serve this role, in addition to letting you describe workflow across the other inf…

The trick is that we’re not replacing programming with the UI - we’re just making it easier to compose things together. Plenty of code in SI - just not the way you write IaC today.…

Yep! The application of Change Sets is a similar moment to record the "why", alongside all the information about what was done. We have more to do here, along with adding things li…

This worked in a previous version of SI (we've built like 4 different versions of it over the years) - but we haven't brough it back in to the current version yet. But we absolutel…

You can't import terraform state right now. High on the road map ( https://docs.systeminit.com/roadmap ) is discovery of existing resources, starting with the import of individual …

Thanks! Let us know if you need anything.

It's a good question! Having a history of how things transformed over time matters. We keep track of that in a couple of ways - one is the graph snapshots themselves, and the other…

Rest assured, we'll have more competitive content over time. :)

All marketing is marketing that will land on flat ears. In the end, you'll have to try System Initiative, see if it is a fit for your use case today, and if it isn't, if it's worth…

I mean, we didn't start there - we wound up there :) But yeah, you're not wrong that it's got a lot of inspiration from things like mobx and rxjs.