The death of the IDP: Meet developers where they are and realize your platform engineering investment

Platform engineering often falls short not due to a lack of standards, but because developers must leave their workflow to access them. Internal portals, IDPs, and documentation sites rarely integrate smoothly into where developers actually work. This workshop examines how platform teams can leverage AI assistants, grounded in code repositories, wikis, and organisational context, to surface approved patterns and practices directly in the developer’s IDE without needing custom training, repo restructuring, or new platforms. Using existing repositories as the system of record and AI as the interface, platform engineers can foster inner sourcing, reinforce standards, and guide teams automatically into a pit of success. The outcome is higher reuse, quicker onboarding, and seamless governance.