ai and ml

Infrastructure automation needs something better than prompt and pray

Vera Platforms, a startup founded by researchers at the University of Michigan, believes there's a way to make agents trustworthy enough to handle DevOps.

DevOps, which focuses on how software gets deployed and operated, is a particularly unforgiving affair. While AI agents have some leeway to make mistakes and correct errors as they generate code and work through a prompt, it's an entirely different matter when they make changes to real infrastructure running production workloads.

"Live infrastructure is unforgiving," Ang Chen, CEO of Vera Platforms and an associate professor at the University of Michigan, told The Register . "An incorrect change can take down a service, open a security hole or erase data.…