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AI & Automation
Reviewed AI & Automation field notes by Michal Jatczak. Each public note includes its evidence, test context and a check you can run.
5 reviewed notes
Shadow AI is a governance-readiness problem, not a deadline
The first artifact three separate AI frameworks all demand is the same: a register of the AI systems in use, their data posture, and an owner. Build that register now for the governance value, and let the shifting AI Act dates be a secondary driver.
Onboarding automation: the role profile, the joiner event, and the five parts that break
An operator runbook for automated joiner provisioning in Microsoft Entra ID: the role-profile file, a normalised joiner event, a poll-for-readiness Graph sequence, the Temporary Access Pass trap that locks out day-one starters, and the formula to compute your own time saving.
Self-hosted LLM serving in the EU: runtime choice, GPU sizing, and the sovereignty argument
A runbook for deciding whether to self-host an open-weights model in the EU: the runtime field after TGI entered maintenance mode, GPU sizing computed from the model config instead of copied from a table, a corrected token-throughput cost model, and the DORA, NIS2 and AI Act record you will be asked for.
Retrieval over a permissioned corpus: ACL handling, the update pipeline, and what to measure
A bench specification for retrieval over a corpus that carries permissions: the four access-control failure modes, why post-filtering starves an approximate index, where the cache breakpoint belongs, and the six numbers to record on every run.
Choosing a workflow engine: what a self-hosted n8n actually costs to run
A decision memo comparing Power Automate licence-and-request-ceiling pricing against the real running cost of a self-hosted n8n, with vendor list prices checked on 2026-07-28, the figures from one operated instance, and a break-even script you fill in with your own flow counts and operator hours.