When a system is faster, cheaper, and more reliable than humans at a particular step, there is a temptation to cut other limiting factors and remove humans from the loop.

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• When an automated system works faster or more accurately than a human, a human cannot meaningfully review its decisions in real time. KKKyle Kingsbury14 Apr 2026
• 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. MZMario Zechner25 Mar 2026
• Adding rules and complexity to a system drains it of humanity and fun. SCSteve Coast6 Jun 2022
• People reliably skip the practices known to prevent rare catastrophes, and then rationalise the shortcut as the reasonable thing to do. DLDan Luu29 Dec 2015
• Complex systems are never fast, because they have too many parts with poorly understood interactions to be optimized. RPRob Pike6 Dec 2023

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