| | | | | | Working Surface weekly · 28 September to 4 October 2026 What is an approval worth? Six pieces from this week on human approval: when a person's sign-off on an AI agent's work protects anyone, and when it is only a button. | | | | | |
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Engineering “Nearly every change gets automated review, a person still approves what merges, and it’s up to that person to decide how deep to go.” Addy Osmani · Elevate |
DesignEngineering “A reviewer who approves agent actions for 3 hours straight stops being a safeguard and becomes an expensive rubber stamp.” Jakob Nielsen · UX Tigers |
Engineering “The agent could generate or refine a template, but it could never save, publish, or execute one.” Vaibhav Raizada, Kumar Kasimala and Ashish Gite · Salesforce Engineering |
DesignEngineering “Whether a request comes from a user, the automated scheduler, or an agent, the same Schedule Action type is used, including the same validation and commit process.” Greg Unrein, Josh Jensen and Christopher Wildman · Dropbox.Tech |
Engineering “Measure cost per unit of finished, verified work, make usage visible by feature or team, and choose the model as a configuration decision from the start.” Agoda Engineering · Agoda Engineering & Design |
 | Wevy's quote of the week Hello hello! This is the line I'd pin above my desk this week: “If an agent can edit the file that decides what needs approval, you don’t have gates, you have suggestions.” |
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