John Cutler: “AI can amplify a coherent operating model. It cannot substitute for one.”

Teams that had the prerequisites — clear ownership, real decision rights, dependencies people could name — see AI become a cheap context layer.

Teams without them get coordination theater. Agents talking to agents. The same fiefdom, new wrapper.

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https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/ai-wont-save-the-kingdoms-we-built