AI in Platform Engineering: When Agents Join Your Platform
· via Spacelift
Summary: Agents now act on infrastructure, so treat them as platform users that make mistakes. Each one gets a short-lived identity, a named owner, spend caps and a searchable audit log; model and tool access runs through governed gateways. The article lays out a five-stage path from fixing platform quality to autonomy by exception. It also names the open problems: non-determinism, cost forecasting, moving standards and skills.
Who should read it: platform teams being asked to let agents into their internal developer platform. Fix the platform first; agents amplify its weak spots.