From hand-coding to "approve once": human sign-off is the new bottleneck
ThePeterMick · x · 2026-10-20
The attached screenshot shows a coding agent's session UI with an "Approve once" button. The author quips that we went from writing code by hand to human approval clicks becoming the new productivity blocker in agent workflows.
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