AI & engineering

Give autonomous work a budget, boundary, and burden of proof.

AI systems should not earn trust from fluent output or green CI alone. They need routed cost controls, stable evaluations, protected evidence, explicit permissions, and human approval where consequences matter.

Observe

Model, route, token usage, retries, tool calls, latency, outputs, changed artifacts, and evaluator results.

Control

Budgets, allowed scope, permissions, stop conditions, approval gates, and fallback behavior.

Prove

Replayable tests, immutable evidence, failure examples, versioned prompts, and documented limits.

Start with a failing run

Bring one agent or AI feature whose cost or correctness is difficult to defend.

The first diagnosis separates observability gaps, control gaps, and model-quality gaps.

Map the control surface