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Shane Dowling

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Join date: May 15, 2025

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Shane brings 17 years of software engineering experience to his role as an engineering manager. He hosts the Hybrid Cloud Show podcast and is passionate about all things platform engineering, maintaining a newsletter at pemonthly.com. Outside of work, Shane enjoys spending time with his kids, running, and reading.

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May 20, 2025 ∙ 4 min

What We Learned Building a Prototype AI-Driven Dev Interface for Kratix

Like many software delivery teams, engineers at Syntasso have been experimenting with ways to integrate LLMs into our internal developer experience. In one of our recent internal hack days, I tried wiring up a Claude Desktop interface to Kratix using FastMCP. The idea was simple: could engineers ask natural-language questions, assemble a platform, and get something deployed without learning YAML or kubectl?

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