Human-in-the-loop in AI workflows: HITL meaning, benefits, and practical patterns

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AI systems can route messages, update records, make decisions, and trigger entire workflows across multiple apps without you touching anything. But as AI shifts more and more from being an assistive tool to powering agentic systems, humans have a new kind of responsibility: making sure nothing goes wrong. Because even the smartest AI systems still struggle to understand nuance, edge cases, or the…

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