About Autonomous Engineering
Autonomous Engineering is a newsletter about what happens when AI agents stop writing code and start running software engineering operations alongside the humans who built those systems.
It covers agentic engineering, platform engineering, and the shift from manual to autonomous, always grounded in real patterns from real engineering teams.
About Zohar
Hey, I’m Zohar.
I started my career as an engineer in the IDF’s 8200 unit. When I needed something from the platform engineers, I remember submitting a ticket and then waiting weeks for it. One of the platform engineers answering those requests was Yonatan Boguslavski (though he was one of the fastest).
We both found the whole process painful and built a developer portal there for the 8200 unit to help speed things up.
That experience convinced me and Yonatan that the way engineering teams work is fundamentally broken.
So after starting and selling a different startup, Yonatan and I cofounded Port to fix it.
Our goal is to shift software engineering from manual to autonomous.
We started by giving developers the ability to get things they needed on their own and by giving engineering leaders a whole new look into their SDLC.
Then, AI changed everything and we realized that AI agents need the exact same things as engineers: context, actions, and permissions.
Port is an agentic engineering platform where teams build agentic workflows that autonomously build features, self-heal incidents, onboard engineers quickly, and more.
We recently raised $100M and I’m sharing what I learn here on Substack.
