AI-accelerated delivery needs refactoring: The CATS guardrails framework

Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy explains why AI increases code velocity while creating an "illusion of correctness," where changes look clean but violate real production invariants. She presents CATS guardrails as refactoring work that scales safety with speed:

• Contracts: explicit APIs, events, schemas, ownership, and versioning
• Automated verification: invariant tests, schema and contract checks, and security checks
• Telemetry: logs, metrics, and traces to detect drift quickly
• Simplification: reduced coupling and hidden dependencies

Attendees leave with a two-week guardrail sprint plan to start Monday without pausing feature delivery.