Most Teams Will Ship AI-Written Infrastructure Code With Little Review
Help Net Security, Thursday, June 25th, 2026
A Spacelift survey finds most teams deploy AI-generated infrastructure code with minimal review.
A Spacelift survey of 406 IT leaders reveals a governance gap as AI accelerates developer productivity while infrastructure teams struggle to keep pace.
The research categorizes organizations into four readiness levels, from Exposed with minimal governance to Pioneers with pre-built governance frameworks.
Most teams deploy AI-generated infrastructure code with minimal review, and nearly all surveyed organizations had at least one AI-related incident in the past year.
Pioneers with automated validation report significantly fewer problems.
The looming challenge is agentic AI making autonomous infrastructure decisions without human checkpoints, pushing a shift toward platform engineering that embeds safety controls into workflows.