{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"[Dev]olution","title":"95% of the World Is Clueless About Platform Engineering","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3538,"description":"Everyone said AI would reduce the need for developers. Instead, it made one kind of engineer more important than ever.\nLuca Galante runs the largest platform engineering community on the planet. Besides hosting PlatformCon, he has also spent years watching real enterprises turn flashy AI demos into systems that hold up in production. Currently, he serves as managing director at Weave Intelligence, the analyst firm tracking how the platform model is reshaping enterprise technology.\nIn this conversation with Nicky Pike, Luca explains why most companies now run an internal developer platform without agreeing on what it's for. He also expounds on why a platform built to serve a thousand engineers suddenly has to support an entire company once agents show up, and why he still thinks 95% of the world is clueless about the discipline that's about to decide whether AI gets deployed safely or not at all.\nThey also get into Luca's new book, Thinking in Platforms, and his thoughts on why demos get applause they don't deserve. He also mentions the one prediction he's willing to put a number on: how many platform teams will actually survive this year?\nIf your platform team just got handed a pile of agents and told to make it safe, this is the conversation that tells you what happens next.\nIn this episode, you'll learn:\nWhy automating yourself out of a task usually means getting handed a bigger one\nHow a good platform works like a paved road, not a rulebook\nWhy product managers are becoming the missing link between platform teams and everyone else\n\nThings to listen for:\n(00:00) Meet Luca Galante\n(02:10) Why platform engineering never had a name\n(04:15) The relief of finally having a name\n(07:35) Why AI debates are really about platforms\n(09:15) Inside the new book Thinking in Platforms\n(11:10) Why the media team dogfoods platform engineering\n(18:35) Why AgenticCon needed its own event\n(20:15) Behind the 90% platform stat\n(28:50) Rebuilding platforms for machine scale\n(31:25)...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NGioKOB49N-k877AC-twbJMVPLxekfS0gRkeRbVCBog/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81MTRi/MGJkNDYxN2ZlY2Rm/ODM2MjQyYjJmNGEy/NTY1Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}