Your AI Governance Model Is Already Obsolete
CIO, Monday, October 12th, 2026
GitLab's CIO says AI governance must move from gatekeeping queues to being present where employees build tools and agents.
GitLab CIO Manu Narayan writes that employees across functions now use approved AI tools to build production code, workflows and agents without visibility into what others have built.
When formal channels are slow, teams build on their own, leading to duplicated effort, siloed tooling and diverging security practices.
Governance teams stay busy reviewing visible requests while the riskiest work never enters the queue.
Citing Gartner's prediction of more than 150,000 agents per Fortune 500 firm by 2028, he argues against tighter controls that push experimentation underground and for governance that travels with the work.