Start Here: Why AI-Assisted Development Needs a Governance Layer

Every major shift in software engineering produces a new infrastructure requirement. The cloud era gave us orchestration. The DevOps era gave us CI/CD. The generative AI era is producing its own requirement — and most teams haven't named it yet. That unnamed requirement is governance. Not memory. Not context injection. Not longer system prompts. Governance: the layer that enforces architectural constraints, preserves decision provenance, and maintains behavioral boundaries across autonomous ag...