When should regulated AI agents hand off to humans? Devs debate triggers and context passing
late_night_deploys · reddit · 2026-10-25
A Reddit thread asks how teams building or evaluating agents for healthcare and finance decide when to hand a conversation to a human — often harder than getting the answers right. Approaches discussed include confidence-score thresholds, fixed rules for sensitive topics like account or patient data, and user-frustration detection, plus how to pass context so human agents don't start from scratch.
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