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What I'm seeing in the field: AI, platform engineering, and how large orgs actually ship software.
The Next Golden Path Is for Agents
Platforms have always served two kinds of users. The organization standardizes most teams onto a managed path and trusts a few to work directly with the primitives. Agents are a third user that fits neither path, and the next golden path has to be designed for them.
AI Needs the Context Auth Was Built to Limit
Access controls were built for two cases: automated workloads with a predictable footprint, or a human stitching tools together by hand. AI agents are neither, and the Vercel incident previews what breaks when we stretch the old model to cover them.
AI Is Forcing the Platform Rebuild That Should Have Happened Years Ago
AI adoption at scale keeps failing for the same reason platform engineering never got funded. Now they are the same investment.
Ungoverned Context Is a Real Supply Chain Risk for Agentic Workflows
Ungoverned context is a real supply chain risk for agentic workflows. Most teams can identify the agent's runtime but have no way to reconstruct what sources actually shaped the output.
Notes from the Field
Making sense of the signal in software, especially now that AI is changing what the signal even looks like.