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How Senior Engineers Use Coding Agents On Prod Infrastructure

Podcast: Beyond Coding · Patrick Akil

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

How do senior engineers use coding agents on prod infrastructure when “make no mistakes” is just a polite request? Kerim Satirli (HashiCorp, an IBM company) explains why prompt rules don’t hold in production, and what he runs instead. In this video, we cover: How Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Contentful, Datadog, Okta, Cloudflare providers) evolved from open-source PRs to automated agent harnessesWhy AI skills files and “make no mistakes” prompts are only requests, and what replaces them in production pipelinesHow AI-generated pull requests are overwhelming open-source maintainers (and why projects like cURL are pushing back)Personalized “software fac...