> Put a human in the loop and you just end up bottlenecking it and throwing away any purported productivity gains. Auto mode doesn't matter either, it's trivial to trick and for the agent to break out.

Productivity gains are still enormous compared to what we used to do before agents. But, I know that people don't want to stop there.

Humans can also be tricked by the agents.

Humans can be tricked by humans too but humans care about their reputation in their communities, and at least fear from punishment.

right, the solution here is not a hyper-capitalist race-to-the-bottom-of-devaluing-labor. it's recognizing discretion and diligence are things still required for work to be of a certain quality