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How infrastructure automation creates new categories of manual work

I set up infrastructure as code so our deployments would be reproducible but now I spend more time debugging Terraform state files than I ever spent configuring servers by hand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Tools designed to eliminate human toil often shift that toil to different domains rather than eliminating it.

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