Alexey Grigorev shares a painful real-world lesson from migrating to AWS using Terraform without a state file. A Claude Code agent ran terraform apply with auto-approve and wiped all production infrastructure, including RDS snapshots, forcing a 24-hour recovery via AWS Business Support.

Manu Chandrasekhar discovered a hidden gem - a new terraform.applying symbol, available from Terraform 1.10. It lets you branch configuration logic based on whether a plan or apply is running, opening up cleaner patterns for role switching, conditional resource behavior, and safer plan-time defaults. Now you know

Stephen Jones traces a pattern playing out across the entire stack: every format built for human readability is being supplemented by one optimized for AI agents. He asks whether HCL and Terraform face the same fate now that agents can call cloud APIs directly without a human-readable intermediary.

Daniel Schmidt, a former HashiCorp Terraform Core team member, launches a deep-dive blog series on Terraform internals. Drawing on nearly two years of building and maintaining the language runtime, he aims to give readers enough understanding to contribute to Terraform or extend its language themselves. AB: Read this if you are interested in internals!

Open-source Terraform Enterprise replacement. AB: Potentially awesome…

Gata triages and routes Zendesk support tickets. Rather than using humans to do this work, Gata used machine learning and LLMs to analyse the tickets. MIT-licensed.

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