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Human in the loop

Designing AI workflows so a person reviews or approves key steps.

Full autonomy is rarely the goal. The sweet spot is letting AI do the tedious 90% and routing decisions that matter — approving a plan, reviewing a diff, confirming a purchase — to a human. Coding agents do this with plan modes and permission prompts; business automations do it with approval steps.

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Rules and checks around an AI system that block unsafe, off-topic or wrong outputs and actions.

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AI that doesn't just answer — it plans, takes actions with tools, checks results and keeps going until the job is done.

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