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You're Paying Twice for the Same Code

Duplication is up 81% and refactoring has nearly stopped across 623 million code changes. The mechanism isn't lazy developers. It's that your agents can't find the abstraction you already built.

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Dan Rye
You're Paying Twice for the Same Code
Dan Rye

You're Paying Twice for the Same Code

Duplication is up 81% and refactoring has nearly stopped across 623 million code changes. The mechanism isn't lazy developers. It's that your agents can't find the abstraction you already built.

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Justin Billig
Platform Engineering 2.0 Is a Complete Answer to a Third of the Question
Justin Billig

Platform Engineering 2.0 Is a Complete Answer to a Third of the Question

The five pillars of Platform Engineering 2.0 describe an excellent platform for agents. All five sit inside one of the three pillars agentic maturity depends on. Here's the crosswalk.

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Dan Rye
Your First Agent Program Should Be One Workflow Wide
Dan Rye

Your First Agent Program Should Be One Workflow Wide

Most agent pilots stall because they were scoped as programs. Ship one workflow, one team, spec to production, with the governance floor in from day one.

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Lesley Mackie
You're Only as Autonomous as Your Weakest Pillar
Lesley Mackie

You're Only as Autonomous as Your Weakest Pillar

Agent pilots rarely stall on the model. They stall because platform engineering, the SDLC operating model, and business intent advanced at different speeds. Four failure patterns, named.

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Dan Rye
The Code Step Collapsed. Your Delivery Probably Didn't.
Dan Rye

The Code Step Collapsed. Your Delivery Probably Didn't.

Half of surveyed engineers ship AI prototypes to production in hours. Two in five hit agent problems daily. A platform engineering read on where the bottleneck actually moved.

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Dan Rye
The Complete Guide to IDP Scale in Fintech for 2026
Dan Rye

The Complete Guide to IDP Scale in Fintech for 2026

How fintech engineering teams scale internal developer platforms past the pilot: rollout sequencing, brownfield migration, golden path portfolios, platform team design, and what breaks at each stage.

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