DX Digest: Is AI good enough?
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Atlassian launches Compass DexEx platform
Looks like Compass is Atlassian’s version of Backstage integrated with their stack. The comparison on their website unsurprisingly shows the enterprise capabilities (easy installation, maintenance, support and user access management).
Although one key value of Backstage is their plugins support, can Atlassian match?
Spotify migrated their iOS app to Bazel without missing a release
This came at the cost of heavy investment from the platform engineering team to maintain, run two builds side-by-side, and slowly improve the cache-hit ratio. That would make sense for a team that has 200+ developers relying on the build systems!
Is AI good enough to improve your productivity?
In reality coding is going to be more AI-assisted vs AI-generated.
Thankfully most of us are not at the risk of losing our jobs, but it means we may need fewer engineers to build massive products. The article also suggests that one needs to be an efficient developer to be effective with AI coding assistants.
And Gartner is going AI-crazy in its 2024 predictions
It also calls out platform engineering as one of the important trends next year. Looks like our developer experience community is gonna have a blast!