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Every AI Benchmark Tests Coding. We Built One That Tests Infrastructure Work.
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Every AI Benchmark Tests Coding. We Built One That Tests Infrastructure Work.

via Dev.to DevOpsMathieu Kessler

Every AI coding tool benchmark tests the same things. Autocomplete accuracy. Code generation. Refactoring. Test generation. Maybe a LeetCode problem for good measure. Not a single one tests the work infrastructure engineers actually do. I spend my days writing Terraform modules, debugging Kubernetes incidents, migrating CI/CD pipelines, and reviewing Helm charts for security issues. When I evaluated AI coding agents for my team, every vendor benchmark told me how well their tool could write a React component. None of them told me whether it could generate a production EKS module with networking, IAM, and logging that actually plans without errors. So we built the benchmark that should have existed. 20 tasks across 5 categories We designed 20 infrastructure tasks grouped into the five categories that eat most of a platform engineer's time: 1. Terraform module generation -- Generate complete, standards-compliant modules from organizational patterns. The test: does the output run terrafor

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