Reports found that 93% of organizations have experienced at least one infrastructure incident caused by AI-generated code, highlighting what it calls an AI-infrastructure gap. Spacelift’s latest State of Infrastructure Automation report says AI is now driving a growing share of infrastructure work, but governance is not keeping pace.
The survey, conducted by Panterra Group in April 2026, included 406 IT decision-makers and platform engineering leaders across North America. Only 19% of organizations were classified as “Pioneers” with the governance foundations needed to manage AI-generated infrastructure safely, even as 89% said they plan to adopt agentic AI for infrastructure workflows.
The report also points to a measurement problem. While 86% of infrastructure leaders said they are confident in their organization’s ability to govern AI, only 30% said they have a formal AI governance policy, and just 15% monitor the volume of AI-generated infrastructure code flowing through their pipelines.
Spacelift said the issue is spreading through infrastructure-as-code and policy layers as “vibe coding” moves beyond application development. The company said 78% of organizations use AI to generate infrastructure code without review, while 33% would deploy AI-generated code directly to production with no scrutiny.
The report also found that 40% of respondents said security vulnerabilities are emerging faster, another 40% said governance is becoming harder, and 37% said rising change volumes are straining their teams. Spacelift said the findings underline a widening gap between AI adoption and the controls needed to manage it.
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