Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

Hey friends! I'm Ala Shiban, I used to lead the platform org at Riot Games (League of Legends, Valorant), and now cofounder of <https://infracopilot.io/|InfraCopilot> / Klotho. Happy to share more insights and stories from the monolith =&gt; microservices journey we lead at Riot

:wave: how are you seeing infra tooling change due to advances in generative AI/LLMs?

totally zoned out - sorry the late-late reply. I don't think GenAI/LLMs will have a significant impact in the infra tooling space - we don't use LLMs other than what they were designed for - a language model (parsing intent from language). They seem to excel in solving other problems when the data is available online and easy/straightforward to synthesize with a degree of generalization/hand waviness.

When it comes to code however, if a certain use-case isn't popular online, or has changed, LLMs , GPT4 included, will produce incorrect results - and the minute you start building larger ideas, synthesizing the building blocks appears to <https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1640122342570336267|break down very quickly>