Enterprise AI Agents Need More Than Guardrails
AWS's governed agent loop is a strong reference design. The production question is stricter: who authorizes each tool action, and can you prove it afterward?
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AWS's governed agent loop is a strong reference design. The production question is stricter: who authorizes each tool action, and can you prove it afterward?
Lambda, Fargate, and EC2 are not a ladder. They are three answers to the same question — how much of the machine do you want to own? — and they bill you in three different currencies.
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For decades, formal verification had a pricing problem. Verifying the seL4 microkernel took roughly twenty person-years; the CompCert verified compiler took six (figures