Speaker: Prerit Munjal
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What want at 2am
- Consistency
- Clarity
- Muscle memory
Groupon’s road to being AI native
- local experiences marketplace
- Project Foundry – AI Native operating model
- One assistant for every employee – Claude. Company default since July 2026
- 11 people, 12 hours for a migration to a different cloud. 10x lower than years back.
Platform Engineering
- Don’t need if startup/small company
- GCP console is good enough
- Don’t have layers yet
- DevOps created problems vs solving problem. Now spending more money
- Platform engineering is everyone’s job but nobody agrees on what it is.
Ai
- Can’t build the platform for the next 3 years.
- Know what agents will look like for 6 months
Other problems
- Don’t want developers creating own account and deploying to it
- When too many layers, get slower replies
- Adoption you have to force is a layer you added
- A platform is a layer unless it removes/replaces one
CI/CD
- $28K a year for Jenkins
- GitHub actions much cheaper
- Developers don’t want to switch because so different
- Setup agent to write GitHub Actions equivalent, test it and create the PR
Incident
- Most of an incident is not the fix
- Times goes to contacting person, gathering and analyzing relevant data
- Much of time is spent on tasks that can be automated
- Incidents generally happen a while after deployment because have headroom from when was working
- Incident is the state a platform is in.
Sample of things to track
- Deployment activity
- Who reading PRs
- Success rate of deployments
- Who tried to deploy when
Other notes
- https://herdr.dev – embedded in platform
- platform vs cli
- Stateful alerts are moe useful than stateless pings
- Nobody talks about prompt engineering anymore. Then context engineering. Now harness engineering
Claude
- Suggested downloading talk, feeding to Claude and pointing it at your codbase
Trusted automation
- Budgetted
- Loud by default
- Exercised on a schedule
- Degrades to the manual path
- Distributable
My take
I had trouble paying attention to this session, but not the speakers fault. Today is the 25th anniversary of 9/11 (I’m from NYC). A lot of reflection during the window when everything happened. The content was fine although I would have liked a bigger font (I was in the second row and it was small). That compounded the problem because easier to get distracted.