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Four Levels, Three Cliffs
Teams do not adopt AI. They climb four levels, and each step moves the context and the blast radius somewhere new. Most companies stand on three levels at once.
Nobody Resisted
We planned for skeptics and got 1,372 skill files in eleven weeks. Notes on an AI adoption that went too well.
Every Approval Is a Missing Rule
If the architects do not write the rules the agents read, the person who writes the template does. Notes from reviewing an operating model for agentic delivery.
Turn the Sequence Diagram on Its Side
The people who can tell you a boundary is wrong were never going to read UML. Turn the sequence diagram on its side and they do not have to.
Adoption Is the Deliverable
The ugliest service in production beats the most elegant one nobody calls. So where exactly does an architect's job end?
The Bottleneck Moved
AI made writing code cheap. Our squad reports show where the queue went next: to the people who have to read it.
Multi-Agent Is an Org Chart
I designed a multi-agent AI system and accidentally rebuilt the org chart, failure modes included.