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Human as a Tool: The Agent Pattern Where You Work for the Machine
Community description: In the human-as-a-tool pattern, the AI agent orchestrates and calls the human like any other tool — for the shrinking list of tasks only we can do. For now.
Dev.to | Nov 8, 2026 | Josep Oriol Carné
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Human-in-the-loop keeps the human in charge. In the first pattern, the human is management. Decide what the agent does when the human call times out: retry, escalate, or degrade gracefully.
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