System Initiative Blog
AI Native Infrastructure Automation, Engineering, and Good Times
Stop Fighting Drift
Drift isn’t a failure — it’s proof your infrastructure is alive. The problem isn’t that the world changes, it’s that your tools still pretend it doesn’t.
Paul Stack
AI is an Amplifier – Why Engineers Need Better Foundations
AI doesn’t fix your workflows, your automation, or your platforms. It simply accelerates what you already have, whether good or bad.
Nick Stinemates
Getting a Hypergraph of Functions to a Browser
Syncing data from the backend over WebSockets and using WASM for client-side persistence and performance.
John Obelenus
State Files Are a Crime Scene
State files stall collaboration and punish refactoring. System Initiative fixes both with real-time simulation and change sets.
Paul Stack
What Will Surprise You About System Initiative
Five surprising things that happen when people first see a System Initiative demo - it's not another DevOps tool at all
Nick Stinemates
AI Technical Operations is Here
Learn how the System Initiative team uses our own platform to manage all external interfaces, user accounts, and Day 2 operations with AI-powered automation.
John Watson
Policy as Code: Automating Bureaucracy, One YAML Rule at a Time
Policy as Code promised safety, but delivered bureaucracy. System Initiative bakes compliance into the system itself — no YAML cops, just infrastructure that’s right by default.
Paul Stack
Cloud Tag Management - The Never-Ending Cockroach Hunt
Terraform and Pulumi make tagging a hurdle. System Initiative helps you ship first, then fix with AI — no blockers, just clean tags when they matter
Paul Stack
60-minute Minecraft server deployment with AI
Using SI and Claude Code to deploy a 60 minute minecraft server with AI
Victor Bustamante
Understanding your Infrastructure
Learn how to discover your infrastructure, and start using SI to understand it more deeply
Adam Jacob
Introducing AI Native Infrastructure Automation
Tell System Initiative what you want, and it will do it for you. Discover infrastructure. Analyze it. Change it. Reproduce it. All in safe simulations with your own policy applied.
Adam Jacob