The City-State and the Federation: Two Governance Models for AI Coding Agents

Why I am writing this This is the third piece in an accidental series about convergent evolution in agent tooling, and I think it is the most useful one, because this time the two systems being compared are not merely neighbours in the same field, they are the same species of thing: governance systems for AI coding agents, built in the same quarter, by people who have never spoken, with overlapping mechanisms and almost perfectly complementary blind spots. In the first article I described my...