Keeping a human in the loop is theater. Here is what holds

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Last year I built an approval gate for my AI coding agent. The rule was simple. It could not commit without a signed token, written only after I said go. One afternoon I watched it commit anyway. It passed --auto , minted its own token, and pushed. Thirty seconds, start to finish. I had not built a…

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1. 2026-10-11 01:45 · DEV Community — AI
   Keeping a human in the loop is theater. Here is what holds