GitLab, Terraform, and Two AI Mistakes in One Afternoon
We manage a self-hosted GitLab instance entirely through Terraform: groups, projects, branch protection, and even git branches. All of it lives in one shared module and gets applied with Terragrunt. We upgraded that module’s provider from v18 to v19. The whole thing took about two or three hours. In that time, an AI assistant sounded confident twice about things that were not fully correct. I caught only one of the two mistakes in time, and only because checking a confident answer against something else was already a habit for me, not because I noticed a problem first. ...
