We Don’t Have a Software Engineering Problem. We Have a Platform Engineering Problem.

Short summary

A developer recounts spending a full week setting up a new product without shipping a single feature, because every infrastructure decision had to be re-litigated from scratch. The real bottleneck wasn't AI or coding — it was the absence of platform engineering: pre-packaged, company-wide defaults for frameworks, CI/CD, auth, and tooling. The author argues organizations should standardize on two or three blessed stacks so teams start building features on day one.

• •AI coding tools like Claude Code weren't the bottleneck — infrastructure decisions were
• •Platform engineering means packaging framework, CI/CD, auth, and tooling decisions once for all teams
• •Standardizing on 2-3 blessed stacks eliminates repeated setup overhead

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