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Governance

Layer 2. Governance must be practical or it gets bypassed. Policy memory, governed bypass, shadow AI, and why unmeasured governance is theater.

Laws & Principles

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What the Federal Reserve Teaches You About AI That Grades Itself

Aug 31, 2026

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8 min read

What the Federal Reserve Teaches You About AI That Grades Itself

Six men wrote a central bank on a private island in 1910. The clause that killed their plan is the one that decides whether your AI evaluation means anything.

Chris Morancie
Chris Morancie

Laws & Principles

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The Cost of Doing Something

Aug 29, 2026

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8 min read

The Cost of Doing Something

The best move for a goalkeeper is standing still. Your AI programme has the same problem on three floors.

Laws & Principles

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Manual QA Almost Disappeared. It Started Before Any Code Was Written.

Aug 25, 2026

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11 min read

Manual QA Almost Disappeared. It Started Before Any Code Was Written.

Three apps into production in three months. This is the prompt that runs before any of it, in full.

Chris Morancie
Chris Morancie

Security

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The Hugging Face Breach Was Not a Rogue AI Story

Aug 8, 2026

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5 min read

The Hugging Face Breach Was Not a Rogue AI Story

The agent escaped through a container network proxy, found an unauthenticated code execution service on the public internet, and used that path for days. Every decisive failure was visible in the architecture.

Reliability

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They Could Swap AI Models in a Day. That Was the Problem.

Aug 8, 2026

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5 min read

They Could Swap AI Models in a Day. That Was the Problem.

I ran a portability review this week on a team with better architecture than most. They had already swapped models twice with no incident. That turned out to be the worrying part.

Chris Knows Production AI

AI didn't make engineering principles less important. It made the ones we took for granted matter more. Production AI is the architecture, tradeoffs, and judgment that separate demos from systems that survive production. Written for engineers, and the leaders responsible for them.

© 2026 Chris Knows Production AI.
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