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Notes on human-in-the-loop AI

Approval design, policy gates, and what it takes to let an agent move real money.

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Automation bias is a design bug

Show an AI's recommendation the wrong way and your reviewers stop reviewing. Automation bias is not a training problem or a user problem. It is a layout decision.

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The gate is a policy, not an if

There are two obvious ways to decide when a human is required, and both are traps: hard-code it and it rots; let the agent decide and it won't. The floor is the third way.

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How did this come about?

A blog about the unglamorous half of AI engineering: what happens when an agent proposes an action that a person has to stand behind.

· 4 min read

What belongs in an approval context payload

A reviewer who approves without understanding the decision is a liability. Five things every approval request should carry — and three it never should.

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Why waitForEvent is not human-in-the-loop

Every workflow engine can pause. Pausing is the easy half. The hard half is everything between pause and resume — the half you end up building yourself.