Platform engineering AI use cases

Inspired by the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar - created by Gitpod

About this report

The following is a consolidated list of AI use cases for platform engineering that professional teams are either implementing or considering. This report was compiled based on data gathered by Gitpod during PlatformCon 2025 from running workshops in both London and New York. We hope that you find it useful and that it informs and inspires the decisions you make on your own roadmap and the AI use cases your company chooses to invest in.

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AI-assisted code generation

Development & engineering

Adopt

Generate boilerplate code, infrastructure configurations, and repetitive patterns using AI tools like GitHub Copilot.

Mentioned 4 times Low

Auto-generated API documentation

Knowledge & process management

Adopt

Automatically generate and maintain up-to-date API documentation from code comments and specifications.

Mentioned 3 times Low

Developer self-service chatbot

Knowledge & process management

Adopt

AI-powered chatbot to answer common developer questions about platform services and reduce support burden.

Mentioned 2 times Low

Golden path template generation

Development & engineering

Adopt

AI-generated standardized templates and golden path examples based on successful implementations.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Intelligent knowledge search

Knowledge & process management

Adopt

AI-powered search that understands context and suggests related information from knowledge bases.

Mentioned 1 time Low

Meeting transcription and insights

Knowledge & process management

Adopt

AI-powered meeting tools to capture decisions, action items, and create searchable archives of platform decisions.

Mentioned 1 time Low

Platform abuse detection

Security & compliance

Adopt

AI-powered monitoring to identify abnormal patterns in resource consumption and platform usage.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Query optimization suggestions

Development & engineering

Adopt

AI-powered database optimization tools to analyze query patterns and suggest performance improvements.

Mentioned 1 time Low

Cloud cost rightsizing

Operations & Infrastructure

Trial

AI-powered analysis to optimize cloud resource allocation and reduce costs through intelligent rightsizing recommendations.

Mentioned 3 times Medium

Real-time anomaly detection

Operations & Infrastructure

Trial

AI-powered monitoring to detect unusual patterns in system behavior before they impact users.

Mentioned 3 times High

Backlog prioritization scoring

Knowledge & process management

Trial

AI-powered analysis of technical debt, stakeholder feedback, and business impact to suggest prioritization.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Data lineage discovery

Operations & Infrastructure

Trial

AI analysis of data flows, API calls, and system interactions to automatically map data lineage.

Mentioned 1 time High

Deployment confidence scoring

Operations & Infrastructure

Trial

AI-powered analysis of code quality, test coverage, and historical deployment success to generate confidence scores.

Mentioned 1 time High

Flaky test identification

Development & engineering

Trial

AI analysis of test failure patterns to identify unreliable tests and suggest fixes.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Pre-flight deployment checks

Operations & Infrastructure

Trial

Comprehensive AI-powered pre-deployment validation that checks configurations, dependencies, and system health.

Mentioned 1 time High

Proactive storage management

Operations & Infrastructure

Trial

AI-powered storage monitoring that predicts capacity issues and identifies optimization opportunities.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Reserved instance optimization

Operations & Infrastructure

Trial

AI analysis of usage patterns to recommend optimal reserved instance purchases and commitment levels.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Smart incident routing

Operations & Infrastructure

Trial

AI-powered incident triage that routes incidents to the right team members with proper context.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Legacy test case generation

Development & engineering

Assess

Generate comprehensive test suites for existing code using AI analysis of code structure and behavior.

Mentioned 3 times High

Vulnerability scanning with risk scoring

Security & compliance

Assess

AI-enhanced vulnerability assessment that prioritizes remediation based on organizational context and business impact.

Mentioned 3 times Medium

Log correlation and analysis

Operations & Infrastructure

Assess

AI-powered log analysis to automatically correlate logs across services and identify patterns during incidents.

Mentioned 2 times High

Performance bottleneck identification

Operations & Infrastructure

Assess

AI analysis of distributed traces, database queries, and resource utilization to identify performance bottlenecks.

Mentioned 2 times High

Technical debt prioritization

Development & engineering

Assess

AI-powered code analysis that identifies technical debt and suggests prioritization based on impact.

Mentioned 2 times Medium

Dynamic architecture diagrams

Development & engineering

Hold

AI to automatically generate and update architecture diagrams by analyzing code repositories and configurations.

Mentioned 2 times Medium

Incident-to-ticket automation

Knowledge & process management

Hold

AI to automatically generate tickets from incidents, performance issues, and security findings with context.

Mentioned 2 times Medium

Predictive incident detection

Operations & Infrastructure

Hold

AI-powered systems that analyze multiple data sources to predict and automatically prevent incidents.

Mentioned 2 times Very High

API compatibility analysis

Development & engineering

Hold

AI to analyze API changes and predict compatibility issues before they impact dependent services.

Mentioned 1 time High

Auto-healing infrastructure

Operations & Infrastructure

Hold

AI-powered systems that automatically detect and resolve common infrastructure issues.

Mentioned 1 time Very High

Automated compliance reporting

Security & compliance

Hold

AI to automatically generate compliance reports by analyzing platform configurations, access logs, and security controls.

Mentioned 1 time High

Change impact prediction

Operations & Infrastructure

Hold

AI that analyzes code changes, infrastructure modifications, and system dependencies to predict change impact.

Mentioned 1 time High

CLI command suggestion

Development & engineering

Hold

AI-powered CLI assistants that provide contextual help and suggest commands based on user intent.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Compliance gap analysis

Security & compliance

Hold

AI that continuously assesses compliance posture and generates gap analyses for regulatory frameworks.

Mentioned 1 time High

Developer journey analytics

Knowledge & process management

Hold

AI-powered analytics that track developer interactions with platform services to identify pain points.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

DORA metrics automation

Operations & Infrastructure

Hold

AI to automatically collect and analyze deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

IaC drift detection

Operations & Infrastructure

Hold

AI to continuously monitor infrastructure state and automatically detect and remediate configuration drift.

Mentioned 1 time High

Insider threat monitoring

Security & compliance

Hold

AI-powered behavioral analysis to identify unusual access patterns and potential insider threats.

Mentioned 1 time High

Policy violation detection

Security & compliance

Hold

AI-powered policy engines that automatically check all changes against organizational standards.

Mentioned 1 time High

Post-mortem generation

Knowledge & process management

Hold

AI to analyze incident data and automatically generate post-mortem templates with timeline reconstruction.

Mentioned 1 time Medium

Predictive capacity planning

Operations & Infrastructure

Hold

AI-powered capacity planning that predicts future infrastructure needs and recommends scaling actions.

Mentioned 1 time High

Security control mapping

Security & compliance

Hold

AI to automatically map security controls to regulatory frameworks and assess compliance posture.

Mentioned 1 time High

System dependency mapping

Operations & Infrastructure

Hold

AI to automatically map service dependencies by analyzing code, configuration files, and runtime behavior.

Mentioned 1 time High

Workflow pattern recognition

Knowledge & process management

Hold

AI that learns from team actions to identify automation opportunities and eventually automate routine tasks.

Mentioned 1 time High

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