Human-in-the-Loop AI: Designing the Approval Layer

Approval UX matters: batched queues, diffs not walls of text, clear accept/edit/reject, and latency budgets so the loop helps instead of bottlenecks.

Money movement, legal commitments, and irreversible deletions keep human approval forever — not because models can't, but because accountability must live somewhere.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.