What none of these patterns address is the human side. What happens when someone actually uses an AI agent to do the work of their entire team?

Not hypothetically -- like, actually does it. Ships the quarterly analysis, writes the strategy memo, builds the model. All in a fraction of the time. And then management finds out.

There's a short film that nails this exact scenario and it's weirdly accurate for anyone who's worked in a large org: https://youtu.be/O5FFkHUdKyE

The engineering patterns will keep evolving. But the harder problem is what organizations do when one person with an AI agent outperforms a department. That's not a technical problem -- it's a people problem.