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Here's the board from last week: # Platform Coffee - 2025-07-30 - Participants: 16 - Note authors are hidden - Link to board ## 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://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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