Francesco Villano

A personal tech blog about building systems that last.

Notes on production AI, software architecture, automation, and the engineering decisions that turn prototypes into reliable products.

I am Francesco Villano, an AI and software engineer based in Geneva. This is where I write down the practical lessons from shipping real systems.

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When AI Writes Most of the Code, Auditability Becomes the Product

Anthropic’s claim that Claude authored more than 80% of merged production code is not mainly a model-quality story. It is a software governance story about reviewability, provenance, rollback, and how enterprise engineering changes when generation stops being the bottleneck.

June 8, 2026

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Enterprise AI’s Hard Problem Is Control, Not Capability

The real enterprise AI bottleneck is no longer raw model capability. It is control: permissions, auditability, approvals, observability, and cost discipline around systems that are already capable enough to create operational risk.

June 8, 2026

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California Is Turning AI Procurement Into an Architecture Question

California’s new AI executive order matters because it pushes procurement to demand operational evidence from vendors, turning governance from policy theater into a real architecture and delivery issue.

April 5, 2026

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Google’s New Gemini Inference Tiers Matter More Than Another Model Launch

Google’s Flex and Priority tiers matter because they turn mixed-criticality AI workloads into a first-class production design choice instead of forcing enterprises to fake it in their own architecture.

April 4, 2026

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Google Didn’t Just Launch Gemma 4. It Removed One of Enterprise AI’s Biggest Excuses.

Gemma 4 matters less because it is just another strong model, and more because Apache 2.0 makes it a more credible enterprise deployment option.

April 3, 2026

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