I lead cloud consulting projects as a staff consultant specializing in application development.

I use to need myself to lead the project, customer management, design work and some development. I would add usually another developer to do some of the grunt work coding and usually a cloud architect to take care of infrastructure as code, security, etc.

Not that I wasn’t knowledgeable enough to do it all myself, I just didn’t have time. GenAI can definitely do CloudFormation, Terraform or the AWS CDK (ie using a high level language like Typescript instead of Yaml) and can do the code where I really don’t need two other resources or deal with the detailed requirements and coordination.

Before the pearl clutching starts about my not knowing how to code without AI. I’ve been coding consistently since 1986 when I was a hobbyist assembly language coder.

> We've had good engineers use vibe coding to save to time to work on their side hustles. Then go on to try to raise money for AI products.

It seems to be working…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...

> GenAI can definitely do CloudFormation, Terraform or the AWS CDK

GenAI does not exist yet.