[Ed. note: We’re opening up a Friday column slot on the blog to provide regular insight from voice within the developer community, either here at Stack Overflow of outside of it. This is the first of those columns, a republication of one of the articles on O’Reilly Media’s blog, Radar. We’ll have a repost from them every month.] This post was originally published on O’Reilly Radar and is being republished here with the author’s permission. —————————- Autonomous AI systems force architects into an uncomfortable question that cannot be avoided much longer: Does every decision need to be governed synchronously to be safe? At first glance, the answer appears obvious. If AI systems reason, retrieve information, and act autonomously, then surely every step should pass through a control plane to ensure correctness, compliance, and safety. Anything less feels irresponsible. But that intuition leads directly to architectures that collapse under their own weight.…