I’ve been working on FortiGate CNF deployments on AWS lately and honestly, writing all the config scripts by hand is starting to feel like I’m doing more copy-paste than actual engineering. Out of curiosity I tried using an AI tool (deepseekai.free) to see if it could generate some drafts for me. To my surprise, it actually spat out a decent starting config – and even slipped in a joke about YAML being harder than coffee, which made me laugh while still being useful.
It made me wonder: has anyone here experimented with AI assistants to generate FortiGate setup scripts? Could be for Firewall Manager, CloudFormation, or even policy deployments. I can see the appeal of having a rough draft done in seconds, but at the same time, trusting AI-generated configs feels like asking your intern to run production changes.
Curious if others have tried this. Did it save you time, or did you end up rewriting everything anyway?
