AI Guardrails — The Thing Nobody Thinks About Until It’s Too Late

In the last post, we talked about what AI agents are — systems that can reason, plan, use tools, and take real actions in the real world. Powerful stuff. Now here’s the uncomfortable follow-up question: what happens when an agent does the wrong thing? It sends an email to the wrong person. It runs a query that locks your production database. It leaks a piece of data that should never have left the system. These aren’t hypotheticals. In 2025, a growing number of companies reported AI agents accessing systems they weren’t supposed to or allowing inappropriate data access. And this… Read more



MCP : Connecting AI to SQL Server – Direct Tables vs Stored Procedures

Every developer building an MCP server for SQL Server hits the same fork in the road within the first five minutes. Do you let the AI talk directly to your tables? Or do you route everything through stored procedures? It sounds like a small decision. It’s not. This single choice shapes the security of your data, the flexibility of your AI assistant, and how much you’ll trust the whole system six months from now. I’ve seen teams go both ways. I’ve seen both blow up. Here’s what I think after watching this play out across different projects. The Direct Table… Read more