The Machine Proposes. The Machine Approves. The Machine Ships. But Sure, You’re “In the Loop"
Everyone says their AI system has a human in the loop.
Almost nobody says where in the loop, which is the only part that matters — because a human placed at the wrong point in a loop is not oversight. It's ceremony with a salary.
I want to describe a failure mode I built into my own product without noticing, because I think it's about to become extremely common, and because the fix is boring, structural, and about fifty lines of code.
The shape of the trap
My content pipeline can generate topic ideas as well as articles. That's the point of it. The wizard suggests topics. I can ask for a batch of ideas. An auto-replenish job keeps the queue from running dry.
It also has a scheduler that picks topics off the queue and generates articles, unattended.
Read those two paragraphs again and find the bug. It took...
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