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Grainger's MarTech Lead On How Disciplined AI Governance Prevents Expensive Shelfware
Bart Lipinski, Senior Manager of Marketing Technology at Grainger, explains why companies that skip foundational data and governance work end up paying for powerful AI tools they only use to a fraction of their potential.
You Can't 'Write Off' AI QA Tax at the Read/Write Layer, You Can Only Move When The Bill Comes Due
Palanivel Rajan Mylsamy, Director of Engineering Program Management at Cisco, on why the QA tax on AI-generated code can't be written off, only paid earlier in the pipeline before it comes due at the database.
What Happens When Read-Only Access is the Only AI Guardrail That Actually Holds?
Drew Moisant, Principal Cloud Architect at Chamberlain Group, discusses why sometimes the only AI governance layer that works is the one that lives below the model's reasoning.
When AI Agents Go 'God Mode,' the Security Perimeter Must Move to the Database
Mohit Bansal, Senior Manager, Security Engineering at Webflow, on how AI agents expanded database exposure from a few engineers to the entire organization, and why security needs to go deeper at the data layer.
I can pull out that rule hash and compare it to a cached hash over in Hedera to see if this rule has changed. If the model says anything under 80 percent, either escalate or block it; that router can make the decision.
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