The Architecture Review Is Broken. Replace It with Fitness Functions.
The architecture fitness function literature solved code-level governance. It never made the claim that the board itself becomes optional. Here is the missing argument — and the economics that prove the board is the slower and more expensive option.
MCP Is Not an AI Protocol. It Is a Governance Layer.
MCP is classified as an AI integration protocol. It is actually a governance primitive — the stable interface layer that architecture fitness functions have been missing for years.