Human Control
Part 6 · Human Control
The course ends exactly where accountability lives: with you. Four pages on the one job that can't be handed off — paying for, verifying, and…
The course ends exactly where accountability lives: with you. Four pages on the one job that can't be handed off — paying for, verifying, and understanding what your loops do — held inside a structure that keeps every real decision in human hands.
The steps
| Step | Page | One-line takeaway |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | Staying the Engineer | cost + verification + comprehension; prove before overnight; resist AI gravity |
| — | Cost Management | caps before first run; the 80% tripwire; budgets stop runaway cost, you stop pointless cost |
| — | Verification | green ≠ done: scripts → checker → outcome check → human spot-read |
| — | The Three Nested Loops | agent < engineer < governance; every arrow points inward |
Where to next
The 14 steps taught you the shape. Two more layers turn that shape into daily practice: the methods pages (design a loop of your own, A through F) and the operating handbook (running fleets without nasty surprises). Both belong to this part's track.
Check your understanding
Take the Part 6 quiz · drill the flashcards
This part belongs to track T3 · Engineer.
Sources: Part 6 draws on Panaversity's Loop Engineering: A Crash Course (S1), Addy Osmani's Loop Engineering (S5), and Andrew Ng & Andrej Karpathy's public statements (S9). Full attribution: resources/sources.md.