The industry keeps treating synthetic media like a detection problem. That frame is too small. The real engineering problem is provenance routing: how truth survives creation, transformation, and retrieval.
We deploy code updates to a 24/7 revenue-generating trading bot without stopping it. Here's the architectural decision that made that possible — and why the obvious solution was wrong.
Most agentic systems let the model decide where a message goes. That's exactly where control collapses. I built nine deterministic routing rules instead — and shipped 430 tests to prove they work.
Every autonomous system needs a kill switch. Almost no one actually runs the drill. I did — and found two production bugs hiding inside tests that passed.