Risk-First: Stars of Software #4 - Colin Eberhardt

Colin Eberhardt: AI Governance, Agentic Coding, and the Future of Open SourceIn this episode of Risk-First: Stars of Software, Rob Moffat talks with Colin Eberhardt, CTO of Scott Logic, long-time FINOS contributor, and one of the principal authors of the AI Governance Framework.Colin has spent years helping financial institutions adopt new technologies safely—without slowing innovation to a crawl. Which makes him exactly the right person to talk to about the biggest technological shift the software industry has seen in decades: AI.The conversation explores what AI governance actually looks like in practice, why banks struggled to work out whose problem AI even was, and how large organisations can adopt powerful new tools without accidentally causing chaos.Along the way, Rob and Colin dive into:Why AI governance isn’t about bureaucracy, but about helping organisations understand risks they didn’t even know they hadHow non-deterministic systems break many traditional software engineering techniquesWhy testing and feedback loops may become the most important tools in AI-driven developmentThe rise of agentic coding loops that can autonomously iterate until tests passHow AI could radically change legacy system migration, software delivery, and developer productivityWhether AI will flood the world with open-source projects… or quietly make open source less necessaryLinks: Colin EberhardtScott Logichttps://www.scottlogic.comUK-based software consultancy focused on complex platforms, trading systems, and large-scale engineering challenges.FINOS AI Governance Frameworkhttps://github.com/finos/ai-governance-frameworkOpen-source framework describing risks and mitigations when adopting generative AI in financial services.Newsletters & mediaAI Augmented Coding Weekly — Colin’s newsletterhttps://newsletter.scottlogic.comCommentary and analysis on how AI is changing software engineering practices.The AI Daily Brief podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-daily-brief/id1669813433Regular updates on AI developments, industry trends, and major model releases.Technologies and examples discussedClaude Code / Anthropic toolshttps://www.anthropic.comAI coding agents and autonomous development workflows.Next.jshttps://nextjs.orgPopular React framework used as an example of modern web infrastructure and AI-assisted cloning.Ladybird browser projecthttps://ladybird.devExperimental open-source browser engine referenced during discussion of AI-assisted codebase recreation.