I have been involved in enterprise Kubernetes adoptions for over seven years — first supporting customers at Docker, then designing platforms as a Solutions Architect at Mirantis. In that time, I have watched organizations succeed, fail, and mostly struggle somewhere in the middle.
Every few years, our industry finds a new label for an old set of problems. Platform engineering is the current label. And like most labels, it is being stretched to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean.
I am not an AI researcher. I do not build models. I do not train LLMs. What I do is build infrastructure platforms — and I have noticed something interesting over the past eighteen months.