Writing
Articles on AI governance and security, analyst firms, software quality, and technology leadership. This site is the canonical home for each piece.
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
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
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
Quality is a Business Imperative
CrowdStrike, AWS, Cloudflare: quality failures now rival cyberattacks in blast radius
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
Inside the Magic Quadrant: What Gartner Gets Right (and Wrong)
What actually happens behind the MQ, from a former Gartner analyst who built them
Oops, the Internet Broke Again, Thanks, AWS (I mean DNS)!
The US-EAST-1 outage, the confirmed DNS race condition, and the resilience checklist
AI's Governance Gap Is Becoming a Systemic Risk
The minimum viable AI governance stack, and the CAT-class scenarios that arrive without it
Cyber Insurance Isn't the Cure, It's a Mirror
Why insurers reflect the security ecosystem's behavior rather than correct it
AI Broke Your Software Pipeline: Here's What Replaces It
Why the linear SDLC collapses into two centers of gravity under AI