DryDock AI — AI Delivery GovernanceWriting on governing software delivery in the AI era: approvals, evidence, risk routing and the cost of AI tooling.https://usedrydock.com/en-gbFour questions every CTO should answer about AI codehttps://usedrydock.com/blog/four-questions-cto-should-answer-about-ai-code/https://usedrydock.com/blog/four-questions-cto-should-answer-about-ai-code/Boards have started asking how AI-written software reaches production. Most engineering orgs cannot answer these four questions without a week of prep.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTengineering leadershipboard reportingAI governancemetricsSuralal SThe most ungoverned AI system in your company ships your codehttps://usedrydock.com/blog/ungoverned-ai-system-shipping-your-code/https://usedrydock.com/blog/ungoverned-ai-system-shipping-your-code/Enterprises design careful oversight for AI agents that read contracts, then let AI-written code reach production behind an approval that is just a name in a field.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI governancehuman in the loopsoftware deliveryapproval gatesSuralal SWhat AI coding tools actually cost your engineering orghttps://usedrydock.com/blog/what-ai-coding-tools-actually-cost/https://usedrydock.com/blog/what-ai-coding-tools-actually-cost/Licence spend is the number most teams can quote. It is rarely the real number, and after the June 2026 Copilot billing change it is not even the stable one.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI costGitHub Copilotengineering budgetFinOpsSuralal SWho approved this? The missing layer in AI-era deliveryhttps://usedrydock.com/blog/who-approved-this-decision-provenance/https://usedrydock.com/blog/who-approved-this-decision-provenance/We built extraordinary observability for systems and almost none for decisions. You can replay a request from six weeks ago, but not a judgment from Friday.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTincident reviewaccountabilityaudit traildecision provenanceSuralal SYour production release process is a Word documenthttps://usedrydock.com/blog/production-release-process-word-document/https://usedrydock.com/blog/production-release-process-word-document/Most engineering teams cannot say which release processes were actually followed last quarter. Not because they are careless, but because nothing ever records it.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTchange managementrelease processaudit evidenceSOC 2Suralal SYour reviewers are the bottleneck, not your AIhttps://usedrydock.com/blog/reviewers-are-the-bottleneck/https://usedrydock.com/blog/reviewers-are-the-bottleneck/The promise was tidy: agents write, humans review, throughput rises and judgment stays human. Then you meet the arithmetic, and review quietly becomes a formality.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcode reviewdeveloper productivityagentic developmentdelegationSuralal SEU AI Act for software teams: what changed in 2026https://usedrydock.com/blog/eu-ai-act-software-teams-2026-update/https://usedrydock.com/blog/eu-ai-act-software-teams-2026-update/High-risk obligations moved to December 2027. Transparency obligations did not. Here is what actually applies to engineering teams, and what does not.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTEU AI ActcomplianceAI regulationgovernanceSuralal SHow to prove your release process was actually followedhttps://usedrydock.com/blog/prove-your-release-process-was-followed/https://usedrydock.com/blog/prove-your-release-process-was-followed/If producing evidence for your last ten deploys takes days of reading tickets and screenshotting dashboards, the process is a description rather than a control.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSOC 2audit evidencechange managementcomplianceSuralal S