What made Netflix fast — local teams building whatever stack they needed — stops working once agents operate across systems; common paved paths now matter more.

In a world of AI with agents operating across multiple systems, wanting source of truth data, the importance of having preferred paved paths that get the most of the benefits and produce some guardrails so we can make sure we're doing good work, common infrastructure, common paved paths, solving problems once with a core set of capabilities becomes more important.