https://andrewphunter.com/tags/governance/ Recent content in Governance on Andrew Hunter — Systems, Architecture, and Engineering Governance Hugo en-us Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewphunter.com/applications/when-inference-becomes-control/ Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewphunter.com/applications/when-inference-becomes-control/ <p>By the end of 2025, the fix for an unreliable agent had a shape, and the shape was more agents. The diagrams were everywhere: a supervisor agent checking a worker, an evaluator scoring the supervisor, an optimizer tuning the evaluator, an observability layer watching all of it. A single agent could not be trusted, so the answer was a committee of them.</p> <p>It looks like sophistication. It is compensation, and it makes the problem worse.</p>