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Deploy Smarter with AI: Introducing App Platform Skills on DigitalOcean

calendar_today March 16, 2026 person Ritesh Mahato domain digital-ocean

AI coding assistants have fundamentally changed how developers write software. Tools like Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Cursor can scaffold an entire application in minutes. But ask any of them to deploy that application to a production cloud environment, and the experience breaks down — not because models lack intelligence, but because they lack current, opinionated infrastructure knowledge.

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