Free guide · 5 checks for CTOs

How do you trust AI code without reading it?

Build a workflow that lets your team delegate code without delegating judgment.

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Cover of the guide: How do you trust AI code without reading it? Five checks for CTOs.
By Renato Budinich · Oct 20265 checks · 14-question self-test

The problem

Agents scale. Your attention doesn't.

Many agents can run in parallel, but everything they send back still has to fit one person's attention. Reading every line no longer scales, and skipping review is how agent-written code breaks production.

The guide moves trust from reading code to checks: deterministic checks decide what ships, and a human looks only where a check points. It covers five places where that breaks, and how to fix each one.

What's inside

Five checks, each with its fix.

  • 1 · Reviews
    Review is drowning your best engineers.Build less, and automate review one step at a time.
  • 2 · Determinism
    Green in CI, broken in production.Let deterministic checks decide what ships.
  • 3 · Understanding
    Nobody understands the system anymore.Get flagged when your picture of the system goes stale.
  • 4 · Guardrails
    Agents delete what nobody asked them to.Wrap the LLM in deterministic guardrails: move rules from context into code.
  • 5 · Security
    Attackers get in through the agent and its code.Keep secrets from agents, lock down CI and run a Ralph Wiggum loop.
  • Guide page: agents scale horizontally, humans don't. Your attention is a context window too.
  • Guide page: get flagged when your picture of the system goes stale.
  • Guide page: guardrails you can set up today, in Claude Code, in Codex and in your own harness.

Your 5-minute check

Tick what you can demonstrate today.

An empty box is a gap to investigate. Prioritize by consequence, not by the number of ticks.

1 · Reviews · too many PRs
2 · Determinism · green CI, broken prod
3 · Understanding · nobody can explain it
4 · Guardrails · destructive agents
5 · Security · leaked secrets, holes

Which unchecked box could hurt most? Make that your first fix.

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Tell me how your team ships agent-written code. Within two business days you get one written page.

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  • Your top riskThe gap most likely to hurt you, judged against the five checks.
  • Your first fixA concrete step your team can take this week.
  • Do you need help?Which paid option fits, or why you don't need one.