Regulated-Enterprise

Verifier-gated code generation looks cheaper. In a regulated enterprise it is a control architecture that produces the evidence you already owe.

Contract theory tells you whether an AI agent’s change is correct. It never had to ask the second question: was the agent permitted to make it?

The loop can write correct code unattended. What it can’t do is grant itself permission — and in a regulated estate that gap is a gate, not a better checker.