Agents can supply labor and options. Humans should retain direction, priorities, taste, risk decisions, final approval, and accountability.
Keep irreversible decisions human
Deletion, large purchases, legal commitments, account closures, public accusations, and changes to security controls need explicit human approval or deterministic rules. The more difficult an action is to reverse, the less freedom a probabilistic model should have.
The same applies to decisions about people—hiring, firing, eligibility, discipline, and sensitive classification. An agent may organize evidence; it should not own the moral or legal judgment.
Do not delegate what is worth building
Agents are excellent at making a specified thing. They do not inherit your priorities, obligations, family constraints, or sense of taste. Deciding which problem deserves effort remains the operator’s job.
Speed makes this more important. A fast builder can produce a polished, complete, useless thing before anyone asks whether it should exist.
Use a two-question test
Ask: if this is wrong, can we undo it? Then ask: who is accountable to the affected person? If the answer is “not easily” or “me,” keep a person at the decision point.
Human-in-the-loop is not a ceremonial click. The reviewer needs context, time, and real authority to reject the output.
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