From YOLO mode to zero trust: Building an agentic engineering control plane
Presented by: Nikola Novoselec
Originally aired on October 23 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Autonomous agents now rapidly write code, patch servers, and operate infrastructure. They can exfiltrate IP or take down production just as fast. The velocity is real; so is the scope of impact. Drawing on Swiss Post’s zero trust program and codeflare.ch, we build the control plane live on one whiteboard. No slides here. We explore Cloudflare AI Gateway for semantic DLP and cost caps, identity lineage tying every agent action to a real engineer, MCP portals cutting tool footprints by up to 99%, and ephemeral sandboxes detonated after every run. The cherry on top is an inference mesh turning idle hardware into a private LLM fabric. No prompt leaves your network, and cost collapses. Leave with a blueprint to deploy tomorrow.
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