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AI Proposes, Rules Decide
AI is a superb drafter of policy and a dangerous decider of it. The resolution is a division of labour: AI proposes, a deterministic engine decides — versioned, reversible, and optional per organisation. These pieces work through what it takes to keep judgment auditable while still letting AI help.
Written for The Builder — Head of AI · Principal/Platform Engineer.
AI Proposes, Rules Decide
Introducing actlint
actlint is our first open-source project: a static, deterministic linter that checks whether an MCP server's declared risk hints match what it actually does.
AI Proposes, Rules Decide
The Automation Reflex Breaks Down at the Governance Layer
The instinct to automate everything that is slow or expensive is almost always right. Governance is the exception - and understanding why matters for any team deploying agents at scale.
AI Proposes, Rules Decide
There Are Two AIs in Every Agentic System. Most Teams Only See One.
AI agents are reshaping enterprise software. So is AI tooling for the people who run enterprise software. Conflating these two is one of the most common architectural mistakes we see.
Field notes on the agentic enterprise.
No noise. A few times a month, when there's something worth saying.