The New Stack Podcast AI can write your infrastructure code. There's a reason most teams won't let it.
Mar 20, 2026
Marcin Wyszynski, technical co-founder of Spacelift and OpenTofu and former SRE at Google and Facebook, talks about how AI now generates infrastructure-as-code and why that changes team workflows. He explores risks when people run generated configs without understanding them. He describes Spacelift Intent, a hybrid approach that lets LLMs act on clouds while enforcing deterministic guardrails.
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OpenTofu Born From HashiCorp License Shock
- HashiCorp changed Terraform's license in August 2023, prompting community alarm and a coordinated response.
- Marcin helped launch OpenTofu with other companies and the Linux Foundation to preserve an open-source Terraform lineage.
OpenTofu Extends Terraform With Missing Features
- OpenTofu aims to be drop-in compatible with Terraform while adding features Terraform didn't implement.
- Examples include end-to-end state encryption, multi-provider orchestration, and OpenTelemetry tracing for runs.
AI Lowers The Barrier To Writing IaC
- Generative AI now writes HCL and other configuration languages, lowering the barrier to provisioning infrastructure.
- Marcin notes customers report they no longer write HCL by hand because LLMs handle resource definitions and syntax.