"Infrastructure automation company Pulumi have introduced what's claimed to be the first artificial intelligence-based platform engineering agent for the industry, named Neo. The tool works to resolve some of the infrastructure bottlenecks that develop as a side effect of AI tools speeding up software development. Neo was launched in public preview on September 16th as Pulumi's first AI-powered platform engineering agent."
"In a press release, Pulumi explains how the speed of platform engineering teams has become challenging to sustain due to the advances AI coding assistants have made in speeding up software development. According to Pulumi's Founder and CEO, Joe Duffy, AI has completely transformed application development methods over the past twelve months. The company has identified a "velocity trap", which happens when AI tools enhance developer efficiency, but platform teams fail to maintain the same pace."
"The AI-powered Pulumi Neo operates as a built-in agent within Pulumi Cloud, performing automated infrastructure work while maintaining enterprise-level governance. It is a fully agentic platform engineering AI agent that automates infrastructure provisioning, management, and optimisation end-to-end. It has built-in governance, compliance, and multi-cloud support. Neo can independently execute complex tasks, understand dependencies across cloud resources, and generate detailed previews and histories for all automated actions."
Pulumi launched Neo, an AI-powered platform engineering agent that runs inside Pulumi Cloud to automate infrastructure provisioning, management, and optimization across clouds. Neo performs end-to-end automated infrastructure work while enforcing enterprise governance, compliance, and multi-cloud support. Neo can independently execute complex tasks, understand resource dependencies, and generate detailed previews and histories for automated actions. Neo supports fully agentic workflows with approvals, deep integration with infrastructure as code (IaC), and automatic guardrails that respect existing governance settings. Neo targets a velocity gap caused by faster developer output from AI coding assistants that platform teams struggle to match.
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