Have you ever stared at a Terraform module and wondered: why am I writing this? If an AI agent can provision infrastructure directly, what's the point of hand-crafting HCL files?

It's a question the entire IaC industry is wrestling with right now. Pulumi shipped a fully agentic infrastructure agent. Spacelift provisions infrastructure from natural language with no configuration files at all. Meanwhile, LLMs struggle with DSL syntax but somehow still generate working infrastructure.

In this session, we'll explore what's actually happening in the Infrastructure as Code space. We'll examine how AI agents are changing the way we provision cloud resources and whether traditional tools like Terraform and Bicep still have a place in this new world. Apart from declaring our infrastructure there's also the safety mechanisms we've built into IaC: state management, governance, idempotency, and rollback. These things become more important, not less, when AI is making the changes. We'll look at how leading vendors are solving this challenge and what it means for your infrastructure practice.

You'll walk away understanding why DSLs are becoming the assembly language of infrastructure: still essential, rarely hand-written, and more critical than ever.