Let Your Agents Review, But Look Before Humans Do
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Let Your Agents Review, But Look Before Humans Do

Agents can run multiple rounds of review and verification before you look. But ship to humans without looking yourself, and something subtle always feels off — because fully specifying a system that feels right to a human is hard.

May 27, 2026
1 min read
By Craig Sturgis

Some interesting thoughts in Noah Smith's piece, "Your future job will be to keep AI on task."

I've had a lot of luck letting different agents do multiple rounds of review and verification before I look at things — but I've regretted it when I don't look at things at all before other humans use the system I'm working on, even with clear acceptance criteria checked off explicitly.

There's always something in the details that is a little off, mostly because it's hard to completely specify a system that feels right to a human, at least while humans are the target user. There's lots of software where agents are the target user and that's a different story. Even then, the agents are still working on behalf of something humans want.


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