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Tell One AI Model Another Will Review Its Work, and Output Quality Jumps 1.5x

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How Mississippi Built The Nation's First Statewide AI Initiative For Education And Workforce Readiness

From Banking to Blackboard: An Engineer's Case For CI/CD-Level Governance Of AI Code

Why The Success Of AI In Regulated Industries Depends On Compliance-As-Architecture

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When AI Agents Go 'God Mode,' the Security Perimeter Must Move to the Database

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To Stop AI Amplifying Security Issues, Some Experts Are Grounding Security In Hardware

Theo Ezell, AI Security Architect and Creator of The Citadel Protocol, argues that the way to prevent AI agents from overstepping security boundaries is to ground them in hardware.

May 19, 2026

Authorization Has Always Been Hard, and a New Generation of Builders Is Discovering Why

Satish Kumar Anandhan, Senior Architect at Salesforce, and Ryan Hildebrand, EVP and Chief Innovation Officer at Bankwell, on why the twenty-year wall in front of access control is a scale problem, not a competence one, and what better defaults actually unlock.

May 18, 2026

Decoding 'Architecture As An Algorithm' and Production AI Explainability In Regulated Industries

Hameem Mahdi, Sr. Principal Applied Scientist at the Technology Innovation Institute, spent a decade building ML infrastructure at Mayo Clinic. He tells The Read Replica most teams are solving explainability backward.

May 11, 2026

Tell One AI Model Another Will Review Its Work, and Output Quality Jumps 1.5x

Vishal Sharma, who has built enterprise architecture across JPMorgan Chase, PwC, and Prudential for two decades, on how the same social pressure that makes engineers write better code under review now structures multi-model development workflows in financial services.

May 11, 2026

From Banking to Blackboard: An Engineer's Case For CI/CD-Level Governance Of AI Code

Blackboard senior engineer Matt Erman on what a career in banking and FERPA-regulated EdTech teaches you about governing AI code, and why his team built enforcement into the pipeline before most organizations knew they needed it.

May 15, 2026

Why The Success Of AI In Regulated Industries Depends On Compliance-As-Architecture

AI systems expert, Sai Santhosh Goud Bandari of TCS, talks compliance-as-architecture in banking and beyond.

April 30, 2026

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.

May 4, 2026

One Layer Away, Always: A Framework for AI in Production Data Systems

Anton Krupnov, Senior Data Engineer at DoorDash, on the architectural principle that keeps AI one layer removed from production code, production data, and production decisions.

April 19, 2026

You Can't Outrun Governance, but Reducing Hurdles to Production-Readiness Starts With Condensing AI Pipelines

Westcoast Cloud Cloud Technical Engineer Joe Gem Reyes shares his path to reducing hurdles to production-ready AI deployments with Fabric.

April 12, 2026

Let The Agents Cook. But First, Secure The Infrastructure.

Docker Developer Relations Engineer Oleg Šelajev on his approach to risk management and securing data infrastructure in the era of MCP.

April 12, 2026

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