AI Amplifies Your Existing Practices: Lessons from Our Shift to an AI-First Strategy
In this two-part blog series, I give a detailed report-out on how our Honeycomb engineering team 2.5x-ed our throughput using AI without breaking everything or lowering our standards for quality. Part 1 explains how we did it and shows data about how that ramp-up happened. In this blog, I share what we learned. The “platform engineering” frame and the “autonomy, ownership, feedback loops” frame are the same frame, spoken in two different vocabularies.