The most expensive failure mode in an agent-augmented team is not the agent making mistakes. It is the team catching the same mistake over and over and never doing anything about it.
A reviewer reads the diff. They notice the agent reached into the wrong layer of the stack. They leave a comment. The author fixes it. The PR merges. Three days later, on a different feature, the agent does the same thing. A different reviewer catches it. A different comment. A different fix.
This is not a problem of agent capability. The team knows the rule. The agent does not. There is no path between the reviewer's brain and the agent's next session.
The flywheel is the path.
What a flywheel actually is
