Methodology

AI made work faster. Everything else got harder. Here is what was actually happening, why every attempted fix failed, and what the data says about the cost of having no governance at the front end.

29 cards, one eleven-word prompt, four phases. What happens when you harden intent before writing a single line of code.

Vector Institute and Unilever let an agent write its own SQL against production data. It failed in familiar ways. Their fix — less freedom, not a smarter model — points at a bigger gap: the difference between a workflow gate and a governance layer.