Platform-Engineering

When AI entered customer service, nobody said ‘just give the agents ChatGPT and carry on.’ In software engineering, we’re making exactly that mistake.

The SDLC isn’t dying, it’s migrating from documents into the execution engine. Most organisations stall at machine-speed delivery under human-speed governance. The missing piece is a function nobody is staffed to own: interpretation binding.

Token Jail is not vendor lock-in. It is what happens when implicit authority meets machine-speed execution. The dependency lives in the operating model, not the API.

Can a model be substituted without triggering a manual risk assessment? If not, the dependency is on absent execution scope, not the model.

A control plane solves the AI-model routing problem. It does not solve the authority problem.