What We Learned From Platform Teams Using Spacelift Intent

Platform teams at Cityblock Health and Vega share how they used Spacelift Intent to bridge the gap between developer velocity and infrastructure governance. The key insight: AI-assisted infrastructure works best as a complement to existing IaC and GitOps workflows, not a replacement. By letting developers describe needs in natural language while platform-defined policies enforce guardrails behind the scenes, teams enabled faster experimentation without sacrificing control, audit trails, or compliance. The recommended approach is to isolate AI-driven provisioning to safe experimentation environments and promote resources to Terraform when ready for production.