The contrarian AI-ops bet: less magic, more inspection.
The model is not the product
The lazy 2026 AI plan is still alive: buy a tool, tell the team to go faster, call it transformation. Lance Dacy’s line is better: you are not becoming AI-native. You are speeding up existing dysfunction. Painfully efficiently.
That is the real agent story. Not whether the model can write code, draft a ticket, or summarize a spec. It can. Great. So can an overeager junior contractor with admin access and no context. The question is whether the organization can see, constrain, verify, and govern the work before it hits production.
Velocity was the trap
