AI Code Agents, with Human in the loop

excellent article, with core member of node.js team

The Human in the Loop by mcollina (Matteo Collina)

that is response to this provoking article

The Death of Software Development by Michael Arnaldi (@MichaelArnaldi) / X

"The broader community is only now waking up to the power of AI. Last week, Ralph Wiggum went viral. Ralph is a technique that prompts agents like Claude Code in a deterministic loop, iteratively building large systems from lists of small tasks. Twitter exploded."

this is the key point from Matteo:

When an issue lands in my queue today, my first instinct is to throw it at AI. ...
But here's the thing Mike glosses over:

I review every single change. Every behavior modification. Every line that ships

Conclusion

The human in the loop is not a temporary limitation to be optimized away; it is a "feature to be protected." The most valuable skill in 2026 is not prompting, but the ability to verify and stand behind the intent of the software.