--- title: Every software company will become a dev tools company description: As AI takes over more application code generation, the role of software engineers is shifting. The author argues that platform engineering is becoming the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/every-software-company-will-become-a-dev-tools-company-qr7vk9lma twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Every software company will become a dev tools company | daily.dev og:description: As AI takes over more application code generation, the role of software engineers is shifting. The author argues that platform engineering is becoming the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/every-software-company-will-become-a-dev-tools-company-qr7vk9lma og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Qr7vK9LMA.png og:image:alt: Every software company will become a dev tools company og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Every software company will become a dev tools company **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary As AI takes over more application code generation, the role of software engineers is shifting. The author argues that platform engineering is becoming the central discipline in every software company — responsible not just for CI/CD and delivery infrastructure, but also for governing AI agents: which models are approved, how costs are controlled, what guardrails exist, and how feedback loops route agent errors back for correction. This 'harness engineering' layer is what turns a raw LLM into something that respects a team's conventions, risk tolerance, and budget. Without deliberate investment in platform teams, organizations end up with fragmented, duplicated governance built independently by each product team. The prediction: more engineers will work on the platform side than the product side, and every software company will effectively become a dev tools company. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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