What Counts as Infrastructure Anymore?
I've shipped five products this year and not one has a terraform folder. I don't think that's laziness.
ivan.codes
Writing about building products, taste, and the one-person stack.
Latest posts
Startups are making their first DevOps hire too early
The moment young teams decide to hire for infrastructure, the math on what that decision costs, and what I'd do instead.
On vibe coding your infrastructure
What happens when you point AI at your Terraform, and why infra-from-code frameworks are the structural fix.
Let the AI cook
AI coding works when the stack is right and the developer has the experience to trust the output. Most of the elaborate workflows being shared are people getting in their own way.
The One-Person Stack
How to ship real products alone and what to care about at each stage.
Four Games, One Afternoon
I built four Playdate games with AI in a single session. Turns out 1-bit makes everything easier.