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Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#91
Is this a real product? This is a solved problem.

First I’m personally never going to create infrastructure in the console. I’m going to use IAC from the get go. That means I can reproduce my infra on another account easily.

Second if I did come across an environment where this was already the case, there are tools for both Terraform and CloudFormation where you can reverse your infra to reproducible IAC.

After that, let Claude go wild in my sandbox account with a reasonably scoped IAM role with temporary credentials

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#92
post #9

All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.

build us a way out

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#93
> LLMs are great at generating Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, etc. but bad at guessing how production systems work.

Sorry, that last part is absolutely not the case from my experience. IaC also uses the API to inquire about the infrastructure, and there are existing import/export tools around it, so I’m not exactly sure what you are gaining by insisting on abandoning it. IaC also has the benefit of being reusable and commitable.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#94
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Hey HN, My name is Collin and I'm working on fluid.sh ( https://fluid.sh ) the Claude Code for Infrastructure. What does that mean? Fluid is a terminal agent that do work on production infrastructure like VMs/K8s cluster/etc. by making sandbox clones of the infrastructure for AI agents to work on, allowing the agents to run commands, test connections, edit files, and then generate Infra-as-code like an Ansible Playbo…

And how is this different than just pointing Terraformer at your existing infrastructure and rebuilding it in another account? That is assuming your company is standing complicated infra up by hand and if they are, your entire “DevOps” team or who ever is responsible needs to be fired

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#95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is the problem with software developers with expertise in software, but no deep domain knowledge outside the CS world.

It is my belief with some exceptions it is almost always easier to teach a domain expert to code than it is to teach a software developer the domain.

This is interesting. Do you know of any examples of successful tech companies built by non-technical founders?

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#96

About 90% of HN is now AI shit at any given time. I can't fucking take this shit. Can you losers talk about anything else.

As are 95% of YC funded companies

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...

I don’t remember where I got this link from

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#97
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FUCK NO. Who in their right mind would let an LLM connect to prod?

Many places have "dev", "test" "prod"... but IMHO you need "sandpit" as well. From an ops point of view as orgs get big enough, dev wraps around to being prod-like... in the sense that it has the property that there's going to be a lot of annoyed people whose time you're wasting if you break things. You can take the approach of having more guard rails and controls to stop people breaking things but personally I prefe…

Account vending machines where every dev can spin up thier own account is a thing and still under the control of some type of guardrails.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#98
post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many places have "dev", "test" "prod"... but IMHO you need "sandpit" as well. From an ops point of view as orgs get big enough, dev wraps around to being prod-like... in the sense that it has the property that there's going to be a lot of annoyed people whose time you're wasting if you break things. You can take the approach of having more guard rails and controls to stop people breaking things but personally I prefe…

There’s no sandpit, only prod and dev, and you’re not allowed to break prod. Your developers work in partitions of prod. Dev is used for DR and other infra testing.

Well that’s just - dumb

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#99
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All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.

I’ve been a year deep into my first job out of tech. There is a never ending slew of problems where being able to code, specially now with AI, means you have wizard-like powers to help your coworkers. My codebase is full of one-offs that slowly but surely converge towards cohesive/well-defined/reusable capabilities based on ‘real’ needs. I’m now starting to pitch consulting to a niche to see what sticks. If the dynam…

That made me remember that one time many years ago, when I had a friend who literally called me a wizard.. He was working as a shift manager at a call center, and one of his most difficult tasks he kept ranting about was scheduling employees, who were not the most consistent bunch, and had varied skillset, yet he had to meet very strict support availability requirements.

He kept ranting about what a b*tch of a problem that was, every time we went out drinking, and one day, something got into me, and thought there must be some software that can help with this.

Surely there was, and I set up a server with an online web UI where every employee could put in when they were able to work, and the software figured out how to assign timeslots to cover requirements.

I thought it was a nice exercise for me in learning to admininster a linux server, but when I showed it to my friend, he looked me in the eye and told me I a saved him a day of work every week, and called me a wizard :D

It occured to me, how naturally part of the programming profession is to make things in fixed amounts of time, that turn difficult and time consuming tasks a human needed to do into something that essentially just happens on its own.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#100
It always makes me smile when you get some random domain with a good looking CSS telling you:

    Don't do the same as everyone!

    For safety...
here... Just curl this script and execute it :)
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