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Packt Deep Engineering | Substack · 1 day ago

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AI Agents Need Governance Before Autonomy With Sibasis Padhi

Sibasis Padhi of Walmart Global Tech explains how AI agents amplify retry storms, and why a scored record of recommendations should decide when an agent acts on its own.

GOOGLESIBASIS PADHI

Packt Deep Engineering | Substack · Oct 08, 2026

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Deep Engineering #67: Harness Engineering Patterns for AI Agents With Ali Arsanjani and Juan Pablo Bustos

Ali Arsanjani and Juan Pablo Bustos on sandboxed execution, least-privilege agent identity, eval gates and trust scoring for AI agents in production.

AUSTRALIASYDNEYGOOGLE CLOUDDR ALI ARSANJANI

Packt Deep Engineering | Substack · Oct 08, 2026

SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

Governance and Harness Engineering Patterns for AI Agents

Google's Ali Arsanjani and Juan Pablo Bustos on agent identity, sandboxed execution, checkpointing, trust decay scoring and a six-level agent maturity model.

AGENT GATEWAYMODEL ARMOR

Packt Deep Engineering | Substack · Oct 01, 2026

SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

Deep Engineering #66: Spec-Driven Development That Bounds AI Agents To Your Domain Model

Alessandro Colla and Alberto Acerbis on keeping AI coding agents from deciding what your domain never delegated

BEERYOUSSEF HOSNI

Packt Deep Engineering | Substack · Oct 01, 2026

SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING

Spec-Driven Development Needs a Harness, Not Just a Spec

How a constitution, domain carriers and six guard agents kept an AI coding agent from inventing Payment inside a .NET modular monolith

BEERALESSANDRO COLLA