Everyone sells pipeline-first delivery as a best practice. Remove access. Route through automation. Enforce consistency. What the slide deck leaves out is the part that actually determines whether this works.
Even championship teams can lose the narrative when leadership loses clarity. McLaren’s latest Formula 1 victory is proof that success without alignment can still feel like failure.
The resistance to GenAI tools isn't simply about developers being stubborn or afraid of change—it's a rational response to tools that haven't yet proven their value universally, in an environment where people are already managing substantial change fatigue, and where the quality bar for production code remains high.