Responsible AI starts in the IDE, not the boardroom.
30 years shipping software taught me how frameworks fail at the team level. Now I am watching AI governance make the same mistakes.
Writing from the engineering trenches - Goa, India
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Slow thinking in a fast world
I spent 30 years building and managing software teams across geographies. I have seen frameworks fail not because they were wrong but because they were written for a world that does not match how teams actually work.
AI governance is heading down the same path. I write about the gap between what the policy documents assume and what actually happens when developers point AI at a production codebase.
I write from a farm in Goa, India, where slow living has taught me that the best thinking happens when you stop performing busyness.
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