Techstrong Group’s Alan Shimel sits down with Luca Galante to unpack the massive success of PlatformCon NYC and the shifting responsibilities of platform engineers in the agentic era. Galante explains that organizations are furiously realizing a flashy day-zero demo cannot scale into a functional, value-creating AI deployment without a robust, well-designed platform. Wielding AI as an indispensable tool, platform engineering teams are transcending traditional IT constraints to manage entire software supply chains and build the deterministic guardrails necessary to securely house future enterprise intelligence.