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The unit of software delivery just changed

Agentic AI shifts software delivery from applications to automated workflows. The business process and the code become the same thing — which means governance needs to shift too.

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The unit of software delivery just changed

MCP servers are creating a security problem most teams haven't noticed yet

MCP servers let AI agents access your APIs without custom code. Most weren't built for production security. That gap between "works in demo" and "safe at scale" is where the liability lives.

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MCP servers are creating a security problem most teams haven't noticed yet

The feature you refuse to ship says more than the one you launched

Legal AI vendors should publish what they refuse to build, not just what they ship. Architectural constraints aren't limitations — they're competitive differentiators. The first privilege breach will prove who got this right.

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The feature you refuse to ship says more than the one you launched

When agents forget purpose, governance has a context problem

When long-running AI agents summarize their own context to stay within token limits, they're deciding what to forget. That's not an engineering problem — it's a governance one.

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When agents forget purpose, governance has a context problem

Context beats model: the AI governance shift product counsel is missing

Better context beats a better model — which means AI risk governance needs to shift from the model layer to the retrieval layer. That's where defensibility lives now.

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Context beats model: the AI governance shift product counsel is missing

LLMs create a new blind spot in observability

LLMs break traditional observability — and that creates a compliance gap most governance teams haven't addressed yet. If you can't trace the full AI pipeline, you can't audit it.

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LLMs create a new blind spot in observability

Treat Your AI Agent Like a Junior Associate—Not Like Magic

You wouldn't tell a first-year associate "do law" and expect good results. So why are attorneys doing exactly that with AI agents? Dan…

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Treat Your AI Agent Like a Junior Associate—Not Like Magic

AI reasoning explanations fail four times in five: what to verify before shipping

The trajectory is encouraging — the most capable models performed best. But 20 percent is not a foundation for compliance frameworks.

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AI reasoning explanations fail four times in five: what to verify before shipping

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