--- title: Reimagining Platform Engineering for an Agentic Future description: Expedia Group's platform engineering lead shares how the team is adapting their large-scale platform to support AI agents as a distinct user class alongside... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/reimagining-platform-engineering-for-an-agentic-future-imp9rhcrd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Reimagining Platform Engineering for an Agentic Future | daily.dev og:description: Expedia Group's platform engineering lead shares how the team is adapting their large-scale platform to support AI agents as a distinct user class alongside... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/reimagining-platform-engineering-for-an-agentic-future-imp9rhcrd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iMP9RhCrd.png og:image:alt: Reimagining Platform Engineering for an Agentic Future 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. # Reimagining Platform Engineering for an Agentic Future **[Expedia Group Tech](https://daily.dev/sources/expedia)** · 12 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Expedia Group's platform engineering lead shares how the team is adapting their large-scale platform to support AI agents as a distinct user class alongside humans. Key insights include: agents trained on open ecosystems struggle with proprietary abstractions, agents will bypass missing APIs by automating browser UIs, and platform teams must design agent-native interfaces. Concrete initiatives include Tarmac (an agent-centric CLI for CI/CD, Kubernetes, and logs), MCP servers for structured platform access, and Koda (a monorepo for agent-built internal developer tools). The broader thesis is that agents are a new class of user requiring dedicated ergonomics, not just a smarter autocomplete layer on existing human-facing tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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