hot take...human-in-the-loop is the same as micromanagement for ai agents, and it's a disappearing pattern. the best managers check for results, rather than controlling process. there’s an implicit level of trust that people will use their talents to figure out the optimal way to do their piece of the puzzle. we’ll eventually grant the same trust to our agents. no one reviews the assembly their compiler generates, because the trust has been earned. I think we’re all in various stages of collecting evidence to convince ourselves to let go. soon, final review & verification will live as the few remaining tasks in engineering. software development will start to look more and more like self-driving: by default trusting, with less oversight over time. right now we're still clutching tight to the wheel