01 / ECONOMICS
When code is cheap, governance is the scarce resource.
The application layer is commoditizing. The management plane is not.
Read perspective ↗Writing on agent governance, economics, velocity engineering, and the operating model for the agent era.
The application layer is commoditizing. The management plane is not.
Read perspective ↗Teams can ship agents faster than approval cycles can adapt.
Read perspective ↗Connect, govern, and operate across runtimes and clouds.
Explore platform ↗For most of the SaaS era, the price of a license covered both the application and the management plane beneath it: authentication, authorization, audit, compliance.
As the cost of producing working software falls, value migrates to the constraint that does not fall. That constraint is governance.
Occasional writing on agent governance, by email.