best-practices

How to reduce human approvals over time

Answer:

Use metrics and confidence thresholds to remove approvals where the system is consistently correct, while keeping safeguards.

The full story

Approvals should shrink based on evidence, not optimism.

Practical guidelines

  • Measure approval rates and post-approval edits.
  • Use confidence thresholds and sampling.
  • Keep approvals for edge cases and high-risk tools.

A good rule: start conservative, measure outcomes, then expand autonomy where the data supports it.