AI Coding Assistants and Infrastructure as Code: Velocity Without Losing Control
· via Gruntwork
Summary: This is the closest thing to a manifesto for what this site covers: agents make IaC work fast, and speed against production infrastructure is only welcome with brakes. The piece builds six layered controls for Claude Code, from least-privilege credentials and permission rules through CLAUDE.md conventions to hooks and sandboxing. Each layer catches what the previous one missed, and the last two cover the tail risks where agent incidents actually live.
Who should read it: platform teams adopting coding agents against Terraform estates, and anyone whose security review asked how the agent is contained.