When the same AI writes both the code and the tests that validate it, the tests do not validate the code. They validate the AI's assumptions about the code. The green check has come unmoored from the thing it was supposed to certify.
Google's DORA team concluded AI won't fix broken engineering systems. Faros AI measured the wound and named it Acceleration Whiplash. The change rate tripled, the control rate stayed flat. The fix isn't slower code.
92% of US developers use AI coding tools. 46% of new code on GitHub is AI-assisted. And the security pass rate stayed flat while the capability benchmarks climbed. When writing code became free, the binding constraint moved to the gate.
FIQ is a governance control plane for the agentic era. No copy. No canonical record. No governance committee. Identity and context resolved in-flight, at query time, with confidence scoring.