Some AI Development Lessons

2025-09-29 10 min read Ai Development Zachary Loeber

I’ve got a tendency to take tools and frameworks in IT and immediately push them to their limits and beyond. Sadly, this often lands me into the trough of disillusionment quite quickly when exploring any new technology. On the flip side, it is through this process I often learn some great lessons. This article will cover lessons learned as it pertains to AI in an effort to help shortcut some of those that are starting to dive further into this incredible new world we are entering with AI.

Cleaning Terraformer output with AI

2025-09-19 19 min read Terraform Ai Mcp Devops Zachary Loeber

This article will go over using a team of AI agents in conjunction with the Terraform MCP server and Docker’s cagent tool to clean up some rather gnarly autogenerated terraform without needing to write any code.

Vendoring Terraform Modules With Git Subtree

2025-08-04 5 min read Devops Git Terraform Cicd Zachary Loeber

In this article I’ll go over a less obvious way to vendor in outside modules into your terraform code base.

Semi Auto Importing Terraform State

2025-07-14 8 min read Devops Terraform Python Zachary Loeber

On more than one occasion I’ve longed for the mean’s to automatically import terraform state. But this is a feature I know will likely never be added for a number of very good reasons. In some cases it is possible to use only a plan file to automate the generation of terraform import blocks though. Here is how it can be done.

Free Tokens for AI Exploration

2025-05-16 5 min read Ai Llm Openai API Zachary Loeber

Using ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, or any of the other chat based LLM service is a great way to start with AI. But in order to bring things to the next level you will either need some beefy hardware to run models locally or access to an online API with models you can use. This article will walk you through how to do the later of these two options for free.

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