Evolving Front-End Platform Engineering for the AI Era

Sean McQuaid

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What is Front-End Platform Engineering?

Front-End Platform Engineers focus on building and maintaining tools that streamline software development and deployment for Front-End developers.

It's about creating self-service tools that reduce cognitive load for Developers and could even give their Developers the opportunity to improve their product's User Experience.

Front-End Platform Engineering is a bit different in my eyes than normal Platform Engineering!

User Experience + Developer Experience

User Experience	Developer Experience

Why does it matter?

We try to make engineers more productive and improve the UX across our companies!

How does this tie into AI?

WE enable engineers! So does AI! We're effectively colleagues

AI Needs guidance and context

What should our new focus be?

Scaffolding with pre-populated patterns

Docs! ALL THE DOCS

Standardized Instructions/Rules Files for Agents

Re-Evaluate Tooling CHoices

Automated Setup Shell Scripts for Agents to get spun up quickly

What's the one thing we shouldn't we be working on?

Highly Domain Specific things instead of industry specific