Adam Jacob
Adam is the CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative. He's an engineering and product innovator, with decades of experience designing, building, and managing large production systems. Adam previously co-founded Chef Software, was the original author of Chef, served as CTO, and was on the board of directors.
Sessions
I get it. You tried using AI tooling to write some terraform, or to vibe code an application, and it generated an unholy mess of slop. We’re ruining the planet with the heat generated from datacenters, people are losing their jobs, and the whole thing feels like a bad speed run of web-3 style crypto grift combined with astronomical levels of unattainable hype. It’s a bubble that’s bound to pop. What you want is for the whole thing to just go away, really, if we’re being honest with each other.
But it won’t. Because it turns out, LLMs are incredibly useful technologies, and the industry has only really learned how to use them well in the last six months. The metaphorical genie is, in fact, out of the bottle. In this talk I’ll show you how building an AI Agent transformed System Initiative from the top down, and radically changed my perspective on what’s possible in infrastructure automation. I’ll go deep into how things work, why they work, and what it all means for how our corner of the industry works moving forward.