Less, But Better: Dieter Rams' Design Principles for Platform Engineering in the Agentic AI Era

In the late 1970s, Dieter Rams looked at the world and saw what he called "an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises." He responded with ten principles of good design. They were written for physical products, but they've outlasted most of the products themselves. Now look at platform engineering in 2026. Nearly 90% of enterprises run internal developer platforms. AI agents are getting RBAC permissions and resource quotas. MCP has over 10,000 published servers under Linux Foundation...