Overview
The goal of agentic automation is to reduce unnecessary human effort, not to remove humans blindly.
Human checkpoints can be moved later in the workflow as the system becomes more reliable. The human should receive a more complete, better-evidenced package rather than being asked to perform every debugging and implementation step.
Review has two distinct purposes. First, it gates dangerous or incorrect changes before they reach production. Second, it gives the human insight into how the engineering system is behaving. That second purpose is essential because the object under review is not only the code; it is also the harness that produced the code.