The myth of autonomous operations is "no humans in the loop." The reality is operators stop being the first line of monitoring. They're still in the loop, they decide what to do, but they're not the cheap labor doing the scan.
For a 5-person studio running 12 products, manual scanning is the highest-cost activity nobody charges for. Mornings disappear into dashboards. Autonomous operations doesn't remove the operator; it removes the scan.
Qualia's stance: "autonomous" should never mean "untraceable." Every decision the system takes has a record. Every action a human reverses gets fed back. The system gets calibrated by use, not by promise.