Agent design tips: keep decision traces and always give users control
goyalshaliniuk · x · 2026-09-15
A thread on AI agent product design argues AI should support decisions, not remove human judgment. Key practices: keep a decision trace (input, retrieved data, tools used, rules applied, final output) to ease debugging, auditing, and improvement; and give users control via human approval, override options, editable inputs, feedback buttons, and clear escalation paths so they can question or correct the system.
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