Can AI Generate Functional Terraform?

Current large language models (LLMs) can generate syntactically correct Terraform HCL code, but can they generate deployable, functional Terraform stacks? Anyone who has tried will quickly notice a pattern.

Let’s take a simple example: a small application with an Amazon S3 bucket and a Lambda function.

Iteration 1: AI Generates the Basics

For the prompt “Generate Terraform to create an AWS S3 bucket and a Lambda function that processes uploaded objects,” our AI’s response was:

At first glance, the Terraform looks correct and has…