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Platform Engineering and AI Agents

2 articles

What changes for platform teams when developers work through AI coding agents.

  • The AI-native IDP: why developers skip the portal, and how skills and context files bring the platform into the agent.
  • Agents as contractors: what agents have in common with contractors, and why the platform should own the contract rather than the code.
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10 min read

Your AI Agent Is a Contractor. Treat It Like One.

I have been the contractor and I have been the team that inherits the contractor's work. AI agents bring the same problems, and platform engineering is how you deal with them.

Platform EngineeringAIDevOps

8 min read

The AI-Native Internal Developer Platform

IDP adoption has always been hard. AI coding assistants change that — and force us to rethink who the platform's customers actually are.

Platform EngineeringIDPAI