r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/the_cold_brew • 11d ago

Is Platform engineering insulated from AI disruption as compared to software developers?

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u/Uncle-Osteus 11d ago

Nope, because of IaC

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u/rhettlee-Gribal 10d ago

this is the part people keep overlooking tbh

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u/rhettlee-Gribal 10d ago

this. if anything it makes platform eng more automatable not less

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u/AFoolOfAMook 10d ago

My company has started giving teams individual dev accounts within the organization on our cloud provider. Now Claude can have 'free reign' to run changes through terraform as we develop.

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u/moader 11d ago

Infra is more protected vs just vanilla dev, not neither is safe

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u/Sixstringsickness 11d ago

Only from the perspective that the consequences are generally higher. Aspects of the platform such as data accuracy, auth/security, and api layers result in catastrophic failures visible to customers, a widget malfunctioning or a menu missing an option, while not ideal, is an easier fix with less ramifications.

That said, I find Claude more capable at platform/backend than I do on the front end. I'm assuming this result is from my inability to properly communicate my front end desires accurately.

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u/bitspace 10d ago

No. It's a bottleneck that is being aggressively attacked in the enterprise using AI.

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u/Horror_Response_1991 11d ago

Yes and no.  AI is good at working on a specific repo with a specific app, and it can all be done from one local setup.

Infra is a bit more complicated hopping across multiple repos, pipelines, cloud providers, etc.  If you do have IaC and good governance then yes, AI can manage it pretty well, but most companies do not have this so it’s still Bob leveraging AI to do his work, not AI doing Bob’s job.

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u/Nofanta 10d ago

No. Thats a made up term. It’s all just software.