--- title: Meet Developers Where They Are | daily.dev description: Platform Engineering creates the most value when it integrates invisibly into developer workflows rather than adding yet another portal or dashboard. The key... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-developers-where-they-are-dghrpi7ot twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meet Developers Where They Are | daily.dev og:description: Platform Engineering creates the most value when it integrates invisibly into developer workflows rather than adding yet another portal or dashboard. The key... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-developers-where-they-are-dghrpi7ot og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dGhrpI7ot.png og:image:alt: Meet Developers Where They Are 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. # Meet Developers Where They Are **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Platform Engineering creates the most value when it integrates invisibly into developer workflows rather than adding yet another portal or dashboard. The key principle is meeting developers where they already work — inside GitHub, the IDE, or a pull request — by embedding automation, context, and guardrails directly into existing tools. Concrete examples include GitHub Apps for automatic repository configuration, Chrome extensions surfacing product context, one-click environment setup, and self-service permissions. Success should be measured not by tickets closed but by time returned to developers, context switches avoided, and support requests that never needed to happen. Trust is foundational: unreliable automation teaches developers to ignore the platform entirely. The post also argues for starting with a clearly defined problem rather than a proposed solution, and notes that future platforms will extend these same principles to MCP servers, AI skills, and coding agents. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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