The human-in-the-loop decay tree, ending at 'human legally liable for the loop'

korymath · x · 2026-11-02

A viral joke mapping the decay of 'human-in-the-loop': in-the-loop → on-the-loop → near-the-loop → cc'd-on-the-loop → legally-liable-for-the-loop. It skewers how 'human oversight' in the agent era has hollowed out until humans only exist to take the legal blame.

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