Paul LaPosta
Cloud, SRE & AI governance for high-stakes systems
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Crafting Conflict is my field manual for engineering managers and tech leads, bundled on Leanpub with the Forged Culture Protocol Deck. The book gives you the six saboteur patterns that quietly erode a team, word-for-word intervention scripts, and repair tools for after the...
Conflict as Telemetry for Illegible AI is my peer-reviewed paper in the AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium proceedings. I delivered it as the keynote at the AI in Business symposium. The idea is that recurring conflict around a critical workflow (escalations, reversals, rework, blame...
DAS-1 is an open standard I wrote in the winter of 2025. It is a baseline Delegated Authority Standard for AI and Agentic workflows. I saw what was coming, and before we had the security disaster with openclaw. I wrote this to prevent such things. Ive adapted it some as things have evolved.
