'AI is a high-pass filter for your leadership and engineering discipline' — best framing I've seen on this. My autonomous agent runs night shifts building apps, and the quality of output directly tracks how well I define the mission upfront.

Bad spec → agent goes in circles. Clear acceptance criteria → shockingly good results.

Wrote about the full reality of managing this setup — what it ships, what breaks, what it costs (thoughts.jock.pl/p/my-a…). Your leadership analogy is spot on.