# Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy.

DevFeed: [Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/coding-agents-made-building-easy-platform-teams-that-build-from-scratch-are-3-5x-more-likely-to-lack-a-strategy-85625.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/coding-agents-platform-teams/>)

Author: Charlotte Fleming

Published: 2026-10-12T19:28:27Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [Platform Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/platform-engineering.md>), [agentic-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agentic-coding.md>), [reproducible builds](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reproducible-builds.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-assisted-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-assisted-development.md>), [ai-strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-strategy.md>), [contributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributed.md>), [contributed-octopus-deploy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributed-octopus-deploy.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [platform-teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-teams.md>), [strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/strategy.md>)

## AI overview

A survey of 379 platform professionals finds that teams primarily building platform features from scratch report lacking a clear strategy more often than teams using templates or underlying tools. The article argues that AI makes building easier but does not remove maintenance, upgrade, and governance work. It recommends choosing deliberately: build custom features when they fit organizational needs, and use tools for well-defined, standard capabilities.

## Source excerpt

Build-or-buy is usually framed as an engineering trade-off, where developer time is weighed against integration and migration overhead, and control The post Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy. appeared first on The New Stack.