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Cosmology for multi-tenant: universe, system, environment
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Cosmology for multi-tenant: universe, system, environment

The standard tenant / sub-tenant framing for multi-tenant is too thin. The cosmological metaphor, universe, galaxy, solar system, environment, gives you a layered model that maps onto the scopes that actually matter: compliance, billing, isolation, hierarchy.

Sid Smith Sid Smith 7 min read
Projects: the second axis of persona scope
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Projects: the second axis of persona scope

Personas are the top-level containers. Projects are the next layer in. Here's why projects belong nested inside personas, not floating around as flat tags.

Sid Smith Sid Smith 8 min read
AI in the news: week of April 12, 2026
AI in the News

AI in the news: week of April 12, 2026

The closed-frontier club tightened. The big three US labs are sharing intelligence on Chinese distillation. Broadcom-Google-Anthropic locked TPU production through 2031 with 3.5 GW behind Claude. Meta walked away from open weights with Muse Spark. Mythos Preview held the safety line.

Sid Smith Sid Smith 7 min read
The five questions every audit trail must answer
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The five questions every audit trail must answer

If your audit trail can't answer all five, what happened, why was it allowed, under what rules, who is accountable, who coordinated, you don't have an audit trail. You have logs. The five questions, what populating them takes, and the predictable failure mode for teams that miss each one.

Sid Smith Sid Smith 7 min read
AI in the news: week of April 5, 2026
AI in the News

AI in the news: week of April 5, 2026

Q2 opens. Microsoft put an open-source agent governance toolkit on GitHub covering every OWASP agentic risk. Anthropic refused to ship Mythos 5 under ASL-4. Google split the bet with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform plus Gemma 4. Governance is finally shipping as code.

Sid Smith Sid Smith 8 min read
Default-deny as a compliance posture, not a security one
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Default-deny as a compliance posture, not a security one

Default-deny gets framed as a security control. The more useful framing is that it's a compliance posture: every 'yes' becomes a justified positive choice, and every action ties back to a specific allowed-rule the auditor can read.

Sid Smith Sid Smith 7 min read
AI in the news: week of March 29, 2026
AI in the News

AI in the news: week of March 29, 2026

Q1 closed loud. The Sora public API got sunset, the White House dropped an AI framework, MCP crossed 97M installs, a Mythos leak surfaced Anthropic's next model, and Oracle led the largest layoff round in its history. Q2 starts with momentum, not from rest.

Sid Smith Sid Smith 6 min read