Some spells are dangerous not because they fail, but because they succeed too easily. Every workshop eventually acquires a locked cabinet. The books inside are not necessarily evil, and the spells written across their pages may be extraordinarily useful. They are locked away because their power changes the consequences of carelessness. Artificial intelligence has reached a similar place in software engineering. The same tools that can explain unfamiliar code, generate tests, draft documentation, analyze failures, and accelerate development can also expose confidential information, introduce vulnerabilities, recommend questionable dependencies, or quietly move protected intellectual property beyond boundaries an engineer never intended to cross. Responsible AI engineering is therefore more complicated than…