---
id: "quote-automate-judgment"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ The Invisible Pipeline"]
tags: ["talent-development", "long-term-strategy"]
related: ["concept-invisible-pipeline", "claim-eroding-governance-capacity"]
speaker: "K. Sudhir"
speakers: ["K. Sudhir"]
sources: ["agentic"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-agentic"
originDay: 6
articleStem: "hbr-new-26-agentic-systems-implicit-rules"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-to-design-agentic-systems-around-the-implicit-rules-that-govern-your-company"
sourceTitle: "How to Design Agentic Systems Around the Implicit Rules that Govern Your Company"
---
# Eroding Governance Capacity

> "Automate the work that built judgment and you erode the capacity to govern the systems that replaced it."
> — [[entity-k-sudhir|K. Sudhir]]

The stark long-term warning of the [[concept-invisible-pipeline]], compressed into a single sentence. It is the plain-language form of [[claim-eroding-governance-capacity]] and the rationale for [[action-protect-practice-ground]].