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Sol-6 and Opus 5.5 broke my dev process. I'm ripping out the heavy software factory I spent three months perfecting and going agile: continuous testing on staging, frontier models at higher reasoning, and no more independent judges.
AI capability is no longer the scarce input. What's actually holding back adoption: organizational buy-in, trusted context, action authority, energy, permission to build, and economic controls.
I had someone from outside look at code my AI wrote this week. Not the output, the actual work. Every file, every test, every corner where a tired human would have cut one.
Today I did something that would have sounded reckless to me a year ago. I gave an AI permission to merge my own code into my repositories without asking me first.