Automating Weekly Reports: Keep Data Deterministic and Human-in-the-Loop
AdSecret5838 · reddit · 2026-08-27
The author shares lessons from automating weekly reports for several months. What worked: keeping data gathering deterministic (using plain queries) and only using the LLM for text generation; letting the model "figure out" numbers led to confident but wrong results. What changed: over-automating the send step caused an incident where a report with partial data was sent during an API outage. The workflow now includes a one-click human approval to prevent trust erosion.
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