There’s no shortage of AI tools claiming to improve software delivery. Most of them focus on code generation. Some focus on chat interfaces. A few attempt to automate operational tasks. What caught my attention about AWS DevOps Agent is that it focuses on something infrastructure teams spend a surprising amount of time doing every day: understanding changes. As infrastructure grows, engineers spend less time writing Terraform and more time reviewing it, explaining it, validating it, and assessing risk before deployment. That’s where I think tools like AWS DevOps Agent become interesting. Not because they replace engineers. But because they can reduce some of the cognitive load around infrastructure workflows. Imagine a fairly typical Terraform pull request. A developer modifies an EKS node group. Updates autoscaling limits. Makes a few IAM changes. The Terraform plan is generated as part of a GitLab CI pipeline. The output may easily contain hundreds of lines.…