#human-in-the-loop
Every post tagged "human-in-the-loop".
64 posts · showing 21–30
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The Use Cases Everyone Tries and Nobody Ships
Six applications get attempted everywhere and stall at the same four points. Each has a narrower version that ships — and it's usually less exciting than the pitch that funded it.
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The Support Org After Agents: Fewer Tickets, Harder Tickets
The residual isn't a random sample of the old work — it's specifically the hardest cases, with the easy ones that used to provide pacing and training removed. Support got here first.
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Juniors in an Agent World: The Path That Still Works
"Learn AI tools" is the most common advice and the wrong one — everyone has them. What addresses the actual hiring objection is different, and the path inside is narrower but shorter than it used to be.
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Becoming the Person Who Decides What Gets Built
The most common career advice in this shift, with the instructions attached. The conversation isn't gated by title — it's under-resourced, and one specific move changes outcomes immediately.
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Staying Employable When Code Generation Is Nearly Free
"Develop judgment, move up the stack" is true and unactionable. Six specific moves instead — and the hedge and the bet turn out to be the same actions.
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Three Things That Would Genuinely Surprise Me in Two Years
More useful than predictions: naming what would count as a genuine surprise. Three of them, each identifying a load-bearing belief — and what evidence would overturn it.
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What Happens When Verification Gets Automated Too
"Agents generate, humans verify" is stable partly because verification is hard to automate. Parts of it aren't — and the part that survives isn't reviewing, it's knowing what was wanted.
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Debugging Code You Didn't Write and Don't Understand
The instinct is to hand the failure back to the agent. Without a reproduction that produces a plausible fix to a plausible cause — and two rounds later nobody understands the module at all.
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Negotiation, Politics, and the Work That Isn't in the Ticket
It's usually called politics, said with distaste, and treated as the tax on real work. It's also the growing share of the job — and most of it is information flow and reliability rather than manipulation.
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When the Requirement Itself Is Wrong, Who Notices?
The behavior was intentional, decided two years ago, documented somewhere nobody looked. Every stage faithfully executed a wrong ticket — and every automated check confirmed it, by construction.