How AI Is Expanding Who Gets To Build Infrastructure
devops.com, Friday, February 6th, 2026
Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, unpacks what's changing in platform engineering as AI reshapes who gets to build, and how infrastructure actually gets managed.
Baron traces the origin story back to his time building high-scale systems at Instana (which exited to IBM in 2020), where the reality of 'always-on' platforms made one thing obvious: the tooling we rely on is often too low-level, too rigid, and too disconnected from real-world use cases.
That gap has only widened as environments have exploded in complexity-more cloud providers, more managed services, more hybrid setups, more internal APIs, and 'gillions' of tools stitched together into brittle workflows.