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Agentic AI: human-in-the-loop gates that don't slow you down
Place approval gates only at irreversible actions. Approving every step produces approval fatigue and worse decisions.
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- 1The premise
- 2human in the loop
- 3approval gates
- 4reversibility
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Section 1
The premise
The right place for a human gate is wherever an action is irreversible or expensive. Putting gates everywhere trains reviewers to click 'approve' on autopilot, which is worse than no gate.
What AI does well here
- Pause and request approval when a tool is marked gated
- Present a summary of the proposed action for review
- Resume execution after a clear approve/deny signal
What AI cannot do
- Decide which actions deserve a gate without your design
- Make the human's review faster than the action itself
- Recover from a denied step without instructions
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