Bad pattern
A system that pretends to be fully autonomous, then quietly relies on people to clean up errors downstream.
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The strongest AI systems are usually not the ones that remove people. They are the ones that place people at the right control points.
Teams still talk about review as if it proves the system is not mature enough. That framing is backward. In many workflows, review is the design that makes the system trustworthy enough to use.
The question is not whether a human is present. The question is where the human should step in: before action, after draft generation, at exception points, or only when confidence drops.
A system that pretends to be fully autonomous, then quietly relies on people to clean up errors downstream.
A system that is explicit about draft mode, approvals, escalation, and what happens when inputs are messy.
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