Spend Tokens Only on Judgement: Decision Sovereignty in the Agentic Factory

The industry's dream is the dark factory: agents shipping software with the lights off and nobody watching. This talk takes the opposite view, a lights-on factory, where the decisions that matter are visible and owned.

Using Decision4, a framework for decision sovereignty in agentic engineering, Russ Miles shows a working factory from two perspectives. Using it, Decision4 surfaces the right decisions through the lit windows to the human in the workflow, at the moment their judgement counts. Tuning it, Decision4 shows which decisions never needed a model at all, dialling determinism into the factory beneath, so tokens are spent only where judgement lives.