Venkatesh Baglodi

The word KISS crossed out, an arrow pointing to the word KICS, with the caption "Keep It Compliant & Simple — what replaces KISS when machines write the code.

The KISS Principle Was Never About Simplicity

What replaces it when machines write the code On 2 August 2026, a deadline that thousands of engineering and risk teams spent two years building toward did not arrive. The EU AI Act's obligations for high-risk systems were supposed to switch on. They didn't. Regulation

Nobody Calls It AI Once It Works

Every generation gets its miracle. Then it gets used to it. There is a story that anyone who worked in computing before 1980 will recognize, even if the details differ. A program runs. Clean. First try. Someone in the room actually applauds. The program did something we would now consider