Human-in-the-loop sounds great, but who wants to click "Approve" 50 times a day?
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We keep a human in the loop for safety. It’s the standard line during demos, and on paper, it makes total sense.
But in practice, human review quickly becomes the bottleneck. If someone has to check every step or approve every small update, the speed advantage vanishes. Worse, alert fatigue sets in people stop reading traces and just start blindly clicking "Approve."
When evaluating HITL setups now, my test is simple: Can someone make a confident decision in under 3 seconds?
If reviewing takes as long as doing the task manually, the agent isn't saving time it’s just turning real work into an auditing job.
How are you handling approvals in your workflows? Is human review a permanent safeguard, or just a temporary bridge while you build trust?
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Keep human approval for actions that can spend money, expose data, or change production, and let scoped, reversible steps run without a prompt. The approval card should show the exact action, affected resource, and likely consequence; if that won't fit in a quick decision, the action is too broad.