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Platform Engineering: Can We Do Better with AI?

A decade of platform engineering is a reinforcement learning run that lives inside a person. Build the loop instead: bounded proposals, cheap evidence, staged stakes — and every lesson lands as a legible rule, not a memory.

Ashley Flavel · September 2026

Document First, Then Apply: AI Meets Regulated Change Management

Regulated change management demands describe-then-approve. AI agents are stochastic. The resolution: stochastic processes may author, only deterministic processes may apply, and approval binds to the artifact in between.

Ashley Flavel · August 2026

AI for Platform Engineering Is a Different Problem

The industry watches agent actions and asks "is this actor trusted?" The layer under the code allows a stronger model: valid states that cannot be committed otherwise, and transitions that prove themselves as they run.

Ashley Flavel · August 2026