Platform Was Built for a Different Era, and AI Just Exposed It

Pankaj Gupta· Aug 6, 2026 · 8:10 PM UTC ·4 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 5 views

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Google’s 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now report using an internal platform, and 76 percent have established dedicated platform teams. The question for IT leaders is no longer “should we build a platform?” It is “will the platform we’ve built survive what’s coming?”The honest answer for most IT organizations is no – not without work. The platform you stood up over the past few years was designed for human developers shipping containerized apps at a human pace.

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▪Google’s 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now report using an internal platform, and 76 percent have established dedicated platform teams.
▪The question for IT leaders is no longer “should we build a platform?” It is “will the platform we’ve built survive what’s coming?”The honest answer for most IT organizations is no – not without work.
▪The platform you stood up over the past few years was designed for human developers shipping containerized apps at a human pace.

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▪ Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it — The Register

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