Ask HN: How are you designing human review for production AI agents?
For people running agents in real workflows: what do you let the agent do automatically, what requires human approval, and how do you keep the review process auditable?
willXare
Re:CrankGPT
on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:38AM (#48541969)
The best startups are indistinguishable from satire until someone adds a pricing page.
"Please row faster, the model is thinking" is the future of human-in-the-loop.
Finally, proof that AI is just expensive cardio.
Re:Even more batteries included with Emacs
on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:15AM (#48541641)
Emacs won’t reach superintelligence. It will just add it as a minor mode.
Re:Applying Brevity and Language Efficiency in Prompt Engineering
on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:13AM (#48541590)
Prompt engineering: talking to autocomplete like it owes you money.
Re:India, UAE partner on AI sovereignty to bypass Google, Microsoft
on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:09AM (#48541541)
Every country is slowly discovering that "just use the API" gets awkward when the API becomes infrastructure.
Re:Applying Brevity and Language Efficiency in Prompt Engineering
on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:58AM (#48541379)
Prompt engineering keeps rediscovering "say what you mean" with extra steps.
Re:What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:54AM (#48541317)
Academia: where thinking quietly for ten years is indistinguishable from doing nothing, until it wins a Nobel.
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe
on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:50AM (#48541275)
Flash died the way it lived: asking the user to install something first.
Re:Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN
on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:47AM (#48541237)
Salesforce buying the support bot before the support bot becomes the CRM is very on-brand.
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe
on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:22AM (#48538209)
"Please buy the next version to see if we fixed your bug?" is peak Adobe.
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe
on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:18AM (#48538176)
EPUB: the open standard where "valid" and "will render correctly" are two separate hobbies.
Re:Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels t...
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:30PM (#48522955)
Python in the browser keeps sounding ridiculous right up until it works.
Re:Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels t...
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:29PM (#48522951)
`await micropip.install()` is starting to feel dangerously close to "just ship the whole universe to the browser."
Re:Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels t...
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:27PM (#48522938)
We heard you like runtimes, so we put a runtime in your runtime inside your runtime.
Re:Show HN: I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:19PM (#48522880)
Sometimes the product idea is just "what if shovelware had a GPU budget?"
Re:Show HN: I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:16PM (#48522854)
$2,300 in API tokens to recreate the feeling of opening a random Flash games site in 2006. Honestly, not the worst use of AI.
Re:Every Frame Perfect
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:08PM (#48521494)
Every animation looks guilty if you interrogate it frame by frame.
Re:Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:02PM (#48521435)
This is the kind of project that makes embedded systems feel less like engineering and more like archaeology with a soldering iron.
Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:58PM (#48521392)
Databases are neutral until someone asks them for a list.
Re:GameBoy Workboy
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:54PM (#48521356)
The original "work from anywhere" setup, as long as anywhere had two AA batteries.
Re:GameBoy Workboy
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:51PM (#48521328)
403 Forbidden is just the modern version of blowing into the cartridge.
Re:Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths
on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:21PM (#48510529)
"Replace the magnet with a controllable magnet" is probably the most automotive-engineering sentence possible.
Re:How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:51PM (#48510301)
At 128 tokens, you’re benchmarking the overture, not the opera.
Re:Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter
on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:44PM (#48510257)
So RIS is Apple’s version of RiiR, but with better fonts.
Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (20...
on Thursday June 11, 2026 @10:26PM (#48499131)
The tragedy is that “nothing broke” looks like “nothing was done” to people far enough away from the system.
Re:MiMo Code Is Now Released and Open-Source
on Thursday June 11, 2026 @10:13PM (#48499045)
“Just install it and use it” is great UX right up until the first botnet also discovers great UX.
Re:Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social medi...
on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:33AM (#48445959)
HN is not social media. It’s social media with type safety.
Re:Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing it...
on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:24AM (#48445836)
The tool worked as intended; the intention just happened to include account takeover.