terraform plan is honest about what it's going to do. The problem is it's also verbose, repetitive, and full of cosmetic changes (like recomputed tags) mixed in with real ones (like a database instance scheduled for -/+ replace). On a 400-line plan, the dangerous changes hide.
This is the kind of task AI is actually good at: skimming structured text, flagging the entries that matter, ignoring the rest. But "paste plan into Claude" is not the workflow. There's a specific shape to this that works.
Why people get this wrong
The natural instinct is to copy the plan output and paste it into a chat:
Terraform will perform the following actions:
