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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Victor Bustamante

Understanding your Infrastructure

Learn how to discover your infrastructure, and start using SI to understand it more deeply

Adam Jacob

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

Adam Jacob

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