For years, software governance has been built on rigid automation. We wrote static rules and heuristic, used linters, scanners, and checks.
Guidelines are living systems. They define how teams build, review, and maintain code. But like the code itself, they can’t remain static.
Linters, scanners, and review tools have always been part of the developer toolkit. But as codebases scale, the limits of these tools start to show.
When every commit can reach production within minutes, even small inconsistencies in code quality or security can scale into major incidents.