Everyone says AI needs guardrails. Julien Verlaguet wants to know who is actually building them.
Verlaguet, founder of SkipLabs, has spent the last year asking that question, but he doesn’t like the answers he keeps finding. “Every time I look closer at people who claim that they are bringing guardrails to AI, I see more the same,” he tells The New Stack. “I see more prompting — and I don’t see anybody who is trying to build real guardrails and real tooling from scratch.”
His explanation for why is that “It’s a lot of…

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