- Access ≠ mastery. The gap between what AI makes possible and what teams can own, explain, and govern is widening — not closing.
- Taste is infrastructure, not instinct. Codify it: shared specs, eval criteria, explicit definitions of "done."
- The 70% wall is where AI initiatives stall. Know when you've crossed from prototype to product.
- Conductor vs. passenger. The split isn't technical vs. non-technical — it's oversight vs. output.
- Govern now or consolidate from crisis. RPA already ran this playbook. AI is running it faster.