Nobody voted on this: how to build a team that can still change its own mind

A team can get faster, flatter, and happier while quietly losing the ability to decide how it works. Here are some notes on how to tell, and what to do about it. Watch a team adopt AI tooling and you will see something that looks like a win. Cycle time drops. The hierarchy flattens, because the junior person and the senior person now ship work that is harder to tell apart. Autonomy scores go up.…