LLMs, Agentic AI, unauthenticated MCP servers? We’re gonna need more Platform Engineers.
It’s about two weeks into my serious dive into the current state of AI developer tooling.
So far, I am not afraid of being replaced.
Quite the opposite.
For reference, here’s what I’ve built so far:
This let’s me build no-auth API’s securely, as only devices in my Tailscale network can call each service.
This is a very platform eng kind of project.
How can I start building things if I don’t have a platform to build things?
But through this project I’ve formed some very strong opinions on the future of Platform Engineering:
The future of Platform Engineering is AI Infrastructure
These are my three pillars for platform engineering.
It’s how I communicate our role is upper management, other teams we work with, and shapes the metrics I measure a platform teams success.
AI presents a massive challenge to Performance & Reliability and Security.