Chef Creator Unveils AI Platform To Fix Flaws With Infrastructure Automation

For the past six years, Adam Jacob, the original author of Chef, has been working on a solution for how Chef and other tools in that generation of infrastructure automation fell short.

“One of the things we saw was that, especially in the large enterprise, the results just weren’t holding up over time, because the complexity of the automation itself was getting in the way,” Jacob told The New Stack.

The key to streamlining that complexity, he felt, lay in natural language: “Our initial hope was that we could find a way to allow a user…