Bolt.new vs Terraform: Which Is Better in 2026
Last week, I watched a junior developer try to spin up a new cloud environment. He spent three hours writing Terraform modules, debugging a missing provider plugin, and arguing with state locks—just to get a basic EC2 instance and an S3 bucket running. Meanwhile, another teammate typed a single sentence into Bolt.new and had a functioning web application running in a browser container in under 45 seconds.
That's the tension in 2026. We're compar