Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy.
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The 2026 Future of Platform Engineering report explored whether platform feature-sourcing decisions revealed anything about platform teams. The study found that teams predominantly building from scratch were less likely to have a clear strategy in place and to meet more of their platform goals. While AI has made building easier, it does not remove the responsibility of owning the code.
The maintenance, upgrades, and governance of a scratch-built feature remain, but the volume of change moving through the pipeline increases. Teams whose dominant approach is building from scratch are three and a half times more likely to report a lack of clear strategy.
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