Draft / large-company software
What big companies should build when coding is no longer scarce
If code generation gets cheaper, the bottleneck shifts to architecture, ownership, migrations, quality, and organizational memory.
signal: developer portals become execution systems, not documentation sites.
signal: migrations must become productized, measurable, and mostly automatic.
The small-company version of developer experience is speed: fast setup, fewer broken docs, less yak shaving. The big-company version is different. At scale, DevEx is the architecture of coordination.
Portals should expose engineering reality
The portal should know service ownership, runtime, dependency age, deployment health, production readiness, incident history, cost posture, and pending migrations. If it only links to docs, it is not yet a platform.
Migration is a product surface
A large company cannot rely on every team reading the announcement and doing the right thing. Platform teams need codemods, automated PRs, dashboards, exceptions, deadlines, and rollback paths.