How AI transforms your role as a platform engineer

AI is pushing platform engineering into a new role as developers build their own agents and agentic workflows.

That speed creates governance, visibility, and compliance gaps, including risks like agent sprawl and missing audit trails.

The article argues platform teams should enable adoption with standards, controls, and scalable context instead of trying to block it.

MCP, context lakes, and self-service guardrails are presented as ways to keep AI automation safe and manageable.