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AI Native Infrastructure Automation: how I learned to stop worrying and love Claude#

CfgMgmtCamp Ghent 2026 digest Program Wildcard pick 2–4 February 2026

Abstract

Adam Jacob, CEO and co-founder of System Initiative, original author of Chef

  • Why: Adam Jacob's talks reliably set the discourse for the automation community (Chef did for a decade), and this is the most direct signal at this conference of where agentic infrastructure automation is heading — squarely relevant to your agentic-identity interest, since agents that operate infrastructure need exactly the credentials and identity story you work on.
  • What: How building an AI agent transformed System Initiative's product from the top down, with a promise to go deep on how and why it works, and what it means for infrastructure automation as a discipline (from abstract only).
  • How: Not disclosed in the abstract beyond "AI-native" architecture at System Initiative; expect agent-driven automation mechanics and their operational implications.
  • Where applicable: Vendor-founder keynote — System Initiative-specific by construction, with the usual founder framing (the abstract spends its first half preempting skepticism). Worth attending for direction, not for adoptable technique; read it as a leading indicator of agentic infra tooling, including its unsolved identity/authorization problems.