... pattern that emerged from these threads: simulate before you spin up, not just before you go to production. One user articulated a workflow we hadn't fully named, "simulate again on every architecture change" and described it as something Terraform can't give you: Terraform

... Quick story that pushed me to build PriceForge : Three weeks ago, I was in final stage of a $50K deal. Sales call went great. Then the pricing objection hit: Prospect: "Your competitor just dropped their Pro tier to $79/mo with unlimited workspaces." Me: frantically opening competitor

... Your AI editor just got superpowers for distributed systems design. I've shipped a remote MCP server that connects Claude, Cursor, VS Code, OpenCode, and Windsurf directly to your Cascode account over OAuth 2.1. No API keys. No copy-paste. Just your AI editor talking natively to your diagrams. **What's new in 0.8.0:** **Proper auth, done right** OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration. Per-user token scoping and audience-bound access tokens mean your diagrams stay yours ... ... Five MCP tools out of the box** list, get, import, export, and delete diagrams straight from your editor. Ask your AI assistant to pull up your architecture, tweak it, and push it back. **Terraform

... kept seeing the same pattern: engineers ship a Terraform PR on a Friday, and by Monday the cloud bill has jumped $800. Not because anyone made a bad decision but because no one had cost visibility at the point where it actually mattered: code review. So I built Zerobillbot a GitHub (and GitLab) app that analyzes infrastructure-as-code changes in every pull request and posts a detailed cost breakdown before the merge. AWS, Azure, and GCP. Terraform