Notes on AI, software engineering, cloud, and whatever else I’m working through.
Agents Propose, Policy Accepts
I’ve spent a good chunk of this year helping teams put coding agents into real delivery pipelines. Not demos. Pipelines with on-call rotations attached. The mental model that survived is one sentence: agents propose, policy accepts. An agent’s output is a change proposal. It merges when the same machinery that gates human changes says yes: automated checks, ownership rules, review, deploy approvals. The agent never gets to say yes to itself. ...