From “human in the loop” to “human with agent in the loop”

🫧 Open on Bubbles I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the same way we always have, now we recruit agents to join the team. An agent-assisted process need not be a black box that takes in prompts and emits features. I’m reminded of a beautiful idea of Brian Marick’s that Ward Cunningham once implemented and demoed to me. Brian called it visible workings . Ward’s implementation made an Eclipse Foundation workflow