Why Software Automation Needs a Layer Between Intent and Execution
Software automation is good at turning instructions into actions. A pipeline can deploy a release, Terraform can provision infrastructure, a runbook can restart a service, or an agent can inspect telemetry and choose a remediation step. But all of those systems share the same weakness: they're usually better at executing instructions than at representing the intent behind those instructions. That gap is easy to ignore while automation is simple....
Software automation is good at turning instructions into actions. A pipeline can deploy a release, Terraform can provision infrastructure, a runbook can restart a service, or an agent can inspect telemetry and choose a remediation step. But all of those systems share the same weakness: they're usually better at executing instructions than at representing the intent behind those instructions. That gap is easy to ignore while automation is simple....