AI Engineer · October 13, 2026

Automation claims: count accepted outcomes and hidden human work

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Why it matters

Soukaïna Abelhad separates tasks touched by AI from tasks completed acceptably without intervention. Review, escalation, and rework can hide inside an automation percentage. Her proposed diligence method connects expert-graded outputs with total operating effort and cost per accepted task. Illustrative business examples do not independently establish a general automation rate or causal productivity gain.

My takeaway: Define the task boundary and acceptance criteria before counting automation. Sample completed work for independent expert grading, then include review, escalation, retries, and rework in total cost. Report fully autonomous accepted outcomes separately from assisted work, with failure severity and human effort per accepted task.

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