Noodling on platform engineering, AI, and 'time to market'

tl;dr: the onset of rapid prototyping dev crews will increase both the speed and size of the organizational foot-gun. ("Survival is not mandatory." - Deming) Platform eng folk should consider time-to-onboard-a-service as an inbound KPI. All software engineering should rejoice that competent orgs will, c/o rapid prototyping, provide a somewhat more regular flow of meaningful work.