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title: "The platform Engineer gauntlent: Three defining challenges in the AI era"
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tags:
 - platform
 - cloudnativecon
 - sponsored
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## Conviciton

- Background: There is an absence of platform leadership
- Reason: Most "leaders" don't push services or features to developers with conviction
- Solution: Be proud and use your leadership role with courage

## Focus

- Focus on developers
- Don't only focus on the production ecosystem (observability, ci/cd) but also the path to this end

## Foundations

- Problem: Many companies are running behind their ai goals thanks to missing baseline automation
- Solution: Embrace the AI