Agents will eventually stop making the mistakes that require senior review, as self-driving cars did; the bet is on when, not whether.

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  The human bottleneck is a safety property: remove it and small, individually harmless coding errors compound at a rate nobody feels until it is too late.

  Hansson expects agents to stop making the mistakes that need senior review, the way self-driving cars did, and treats the timing as the only open question. Zechner says the human in the loop is not a temporary inefficiency but a safety property: remove it and small, individually harmless errors compound unnoticed. One is waiting for the bottleneck to become unnecessary; the other says it is the thing keeping the system standing.

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