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Clearing the wall: what Phase 3 autonomy actually looks like, the regulatory gate that turns out to be the design, and the two gates that tell you when you're allowed to move.
Becoming AI-native is an ordered path you walk one pipeline at a time — tools, then teammates, then autonomy. Part 1: codifying the process, the assist layer, and the wall every pilot dies at.
Principles 6–14. How work moves through an agentic engineering team: the ticket as contract, AI distillation with human curation, three gates, verification before done, characterisation tests, the 1.2× capacity rule, the J-curve, and telemetry.
The prototype-to-production gap for AI agents isn't technical — it's governance. Most organisations have nothing in this layer. The companies that build it first win the enterprise market. Everyone else stays in pilot purgatory.
