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HARMONY
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cd ../Humans Define, Machines Execute: Abstraction Is the Scarce Skill
AI agents and automation scripts can take on standardized execution, but only humans can decompose, decouple, and bound complex work. The bottleneck is not model ceilings—it is human systems thinking and abstraction. Human–machine handoff is essentially: humans define, machines execute.
Review the Review: Across Both Loops, Methods as Team Consensus
AI moves the bottleneck from writing to review. Artifacts widen beyond code and review spans the E2E path—humans cannot inspect every output. This piece argues for layered review (scripts → AI → humans): automated review can run inside the inner loop, while the team uses the outer loop to jointly own whether those methods themselves are sound—and how to correct them when they drift.
Don't Rush to Give Agents Job Titles: Role Inertia in AI4SE Transformation
When many teams start a Harmony / AI4SE transformation, their first instinct is to redraw the responsibility boundaries between Dev, QA, and EA — this looks pragmatic, but it's actually designing new human-machine collaboration with an old org chart. What should really be cultivated is the Expert Generalist capability shared by humans and Coding Agents alike.
Planner / Generator / Evaluator: AI4SE's Three-Role Pattern
Harmony's core question isn't 'human vs. AI' — it's 'how do three roles operate independently': who plans, who generates, who accepts. The three roles can be held by different Agents or humans, but the responsibilities must stay separate.
HITL / HOTL / HOOL: AI4SE's Spectrum of Human-Machine Oversight
Neither full HITL nor complete autonomy — true Harmony is an oversight spectrum routed by action risk: human-in-the-loop, on-the-loop, and out-of-the-loop each have their own place.
Agent Governance: Why Accountability Always Stays With Humans
Agents can generate code, run tests, even merge PRs. But one thing can never be delegated: final accountability. This is the first principle of AI4SE governance.