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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.
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.
We Deleted the Wrong Half of Agile
Reviewability is something you design. Extreme Programming already knew how, and we made exactly the wrong half of it optional.
Design the Stopping Point
Target state is the easy half of a solution design. The hard half is the first step, because that is usually where the money runs out.
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?
A Feature Is Not a Service
The ticket said "saved filters". The real decisions were which service, whose identity, and how little to invent.