What does Meta mean by human-on-the-loop software engineering?
Meta uses the phrase for a workflow where an agent can run planning, implementation and checks while an engineer supervises, intervenes when needed and approves the result. Meta says this is a direction of travel rather than a fully autonomous finished state.
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