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You built a black box by accident

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Each automation looks obviously worth it on its own. Add enough of them and you get a system that works but that no single person can explain. Every local call was rational; the whole is opaque. The risk isn’t any one decision. It’s the sum nobody chose on purpose. Does anyone still understand the whole path, end to end?