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A Human Checkpoint Is Not an AI Safety System

· 11 min read
Hassan Tariq
Engineer · AI agents, cloud

A friend in a regulated industry recently described their AI governance with complete confidence: "A human approves every output."

I asked how many outputs a day. About four thousand. I asked how long each approval takes. A pause. "A few seconds."

That is not a safety system. It is a queue with a person sitting in front of it.

Certainty Is the Bug: A Review, a Guard, and a Docstring That All Lied

· 8 min read
Hassan Tariq
Engineer · AI agents, cloud

I put a side project through a hard review — a written list of findings, each one a specific claim about a specific line. Good review. It caught real things. It was also, in three places, confidently wrong. And when I sat down to fix the things it got right, two of my fixes were wrong too.

The through-line wasn't sloppiness. It was certainty — the review's, and then mine.