Humans and Agents in Software Engineering Loops
3.40T1 sourcemartinfowler.com (Exploring Gen AI series, incl. Böckeler)
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Published by martinfowler.com (Exploring Gen AI series, incl. Böckeler) (T1 source). The original is at https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/humans-and-agents.html.
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SummaryThoughtworks' "Exploring Gen AI" series entry proposing that humans should be "on the loop" in AI-assisted software development—designing and managing the working loop rather than fully deferring to agents or micromanaging every line of code produced.
Why it mattersThe "on the loop" framing offers a middle-ground mental model for human-AI collaboration, useful for teams calibrating where human oversight belongs in agentic coding workflows.

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