Board for Platform Coffee 2025-07-30

[platform-coffee]

# Platform Coffee - 2025-07-30

- Participants: 16
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## Topics (3 Notes)

- What traits make a successful platform engineer?  How do you interview for them?
- Do we listen too much to organizations who aren't at all like us?
- I don't have a topic, but the space looked lonely.Even computers should not be lonely.

## Discussing (1 Notes)

- What do you think about dedicated DevEx teams? (pros & cons)

## Done (3 Notes)

- What challenges do you have with Platform Engineering today?
- Agentic use with platforms (both autonomous or HITL)
- If SRE is in your area, how are you enhancing SRE with AI?  What problems are you solving with AI?

## Links/Info (16 Notes)

- https://www.a-laughlin.com/rename-developer-productivity-time-impact/
- DevEx is often defined murkily. Here's another article defining DevEx and its relationship to Engineering Outcomes

https://www.a-laughlin.com/ux-dx-engineering-outcomes/
- https://octopus.com/blog/productivity-delusion
- https://www.a-laughlin.com/rename-developer-productivity-time-impact/
- https://github.com/cnoe-io/ai-platform-engineering
- replit vibe coding incident
 https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/
- https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/
- https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents
- https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubectl-ai
- https://k8sgpt.ai/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOMqRMhugw
https://sched.co/1u5d6
- AI in SOAR - https://www.anomali.com/blog/how-soar-and-ai-are-reshaping-cybersecurity

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/security-101/what-is-soar
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product-market_fit but also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem
- Adoption: https://getdx.com/podcast/snowflake-operational-excellence/
- https://getdx.com/podcast/snowflake-operational-excellence/

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