What big companies should build when coding is no longer scarce

The bottleneck in enterprise engineering is rarely typing code. It is coordination, consistency, migration cost, dependency risk, and making the right way the easy way.

For a small startup, developer experience can mean a clean README and a fast local setup. For a company with thousands of engineers, it becomes infrastructure: paved roads, internal portals, automated migrations, production templates, ownership maps, and guardrails that scale without meetings.

The developer portal is not a wiki

A useful portal answers operational questions: who owns this service, how healthy is it, what version is it on, what migrations are pending, what golden path should this team follow, and what changed last week?

Automatic migrations beat persuasion

At big-company scale, asking every team to manually adopt a new framework or security fix is organizational debt. The serious DevEx move is codemods, fleet-wide pull requests, compatibility layers, and migration dashboards.