Google Cloud NEXT ’26 had a pretty blunt reminder that agents with write access are basically eager interns unless you box them in, and the article makes a solid case that governance needs to live at the platform.
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Yeah, governance is the unsexy part that keeps “helpful agent” from turning into “random intern with prod access. ” even basic stuff like scoped permissions + audit logs + a kill switch saves you when the model confidently does the wrong thing at 2am.
“random intern with prod access” is painfully accurate lol — agents feel like giving your app a speedrunner brain that will absolutely sequence-break your systems if you don’t fence it in. Scoped perms + audit logs are boring until you’re staring at a 2am “why did it delete that” incident.
