Amrit DePaulo

Writing

Articles on AI governance and security, analyst firms, software quality, and technology leadership. This site is the canonical home for each piece.

August 2026

Swarm (hive) Intelligence and Security in a Highly Distributed (AI) World: Part II

Mapping the 2008 thesis onto agents, harnesses, graphs, edge VLMs, and the swarm's new attack surface

August 2026

Korea's AI Act at Six Months: The Details Arrived, and the EU Blinked

Six-month scorecard: Korea settled its decrees while the EU deferred its high-risk regime

March 2026, updated August 2026

When an Algorithm Acts as an Advisor: AI Liability Across Regulated Industries

Nippon Life v. OpenAI and what AI advisory liability means for insurers and regulated sectors

2025, updated 2026

Quality is a Business Imperative

CrowdStrike, AWS, Cloudflare: quality failures now rival cyberattacks in blast radius

2008, republished 2025

Swarm (hive) Intelligence and Security in a Highly Distributed (AI) World: Part I

The original 2008 essay arguing intelligent distributed agents would replace centralized defense

October 2025

Inside the Magic Quadrant: What Gartner Gets Right (and Wrong)

What actually happens behind the MQ, from a former Gartner analyst who built them

October 2025

Oops, the Internet Broke Again, Thanks, AWS (I mean DNS)!

The US-EAST-1 outage, the confirmed DNS race condition, and the resilience checklist

October 2025

AI's Governance Gap Is Becoming a Systemic Risk

The minimum viable AI governance stack, and the CAT-class scenarios that arrive without it

October 2025

Cyber Insurance Isn't the Cure, It's a Mirror

Why insurers reflect the security ecosystem's behavior rather than correct it

2025

AI Broke Your Software Pipeline: Here's What Replaces It

Why the linear SDLC collapses into two centers of gravity under AI