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Tiny teams, heavy systems
AI will make some teams smaller. It will not make the work lighter.
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Governance
Rules, ownership, and control built into the way systems run.
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How to evaluate platform engineering value
The value of a platform is not the tooling. It is the organisational friction it makes unnecessary. Platform engineering is easy to justify badly. A team builds an
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The Human in the loop is not a strategy
"Human oversight" is doing a lot of work in AI architecture diagrams. Too much, I think. It usually shows up as a reassuring little box near
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When the consumer is a machine
Event contracts used to be guidance. With agents on the other end, they're the thing the system actually runs on.