PARTNER CONTENT: Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it.
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Google's 2025 DORA research shows 90% of organizations now use an internal platform, but most were designed for human developers shipping containerized apps — not AI agents, GPU workloads, or real-time cost governance. Four pressures are exposing platform gaps: AI coding assistants overwhelming pipelines, AI agents requiring non-human identity and MCP compatibility, runaway GPU and token costs that retrospective FinOps can't catch, and new AI-specific security attack surfaces. Platform Engineering 2.0 proposes evolving existing IDPs across five pillars: AI-native infrastructure (Agentic Development Platforms), multi-persona experiences, embedded real-time FinOps, security shifted into platform/runtime layers, and composable API-first architecture. The recommended starting point is auditing for three gaps: GPU/accelerator provisioning, non-human identity management, and real-time cost attribution.
Questions this post answers
What percentage of organizations have an internal developer platform according to Google DORA 2025?
Google's 2025 DORA research found that 90% of organizations report using an internal platform, and 76% have established dedicated platform teams. The debate over whether to build an internal platform is effectively settled; the open question is whether existing platforms can handle AI agents, GPU workloads, and real-time cost governance. Platform engineers tracking DORA findings and IDP evolution follow those developments on daily.dev.
What capabilities does an internal developer platform need to support AI agents?
AI agents require authentication, token usage regulation at organization and user level, GPU allocation, MCP compatibility, scoped permissions, non-human identity management, audit logging, and hard guardrails on permitted actions. Most current IDPs have no native answer for any of these requirements, making non-human identity management and MCP gateway exposure key gaps to close first. Teams designing agentic platform support find the latest patterns and tooling discussed on daily.dev.