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What I Need Before I Approve an Agent’s Work
A review bundle should connect the requirement to evidence for the exact candidate and make the remaining decision explicit.
[AI & Data][Software Engineering]
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A review bundle should connect the requirement to evidence for the exact candidate and make the remaining decision explicit.
Stop prompting, start looping — but the loop is the easy 20%. After a year shipping agentic loops (and a $500 runaway), here's the part the hype keeps getting backwards: the done-check and the verifier.
ReAct gave us a three-step loop. Production hardened it into five. The two new steps — Plan and Verify — are where everything that goes wrong, goes wrong. And the field has now named the worst offender.