1 min lesson
The agent proposes, you verify
For each case in "The agent proposes, you verify", name the signal and the response you would use.
Step 1 of 2
What the agent is genuinely good atthe heavy lifting worth delegating
Tagging area / severity / sentiment at volume
Clustering and dedup by semantic similarity
Drafting a candidate repro from a vague ticket
Summarizing a cluster's common thread for review
Confirming the repro actually reproduces
Final severity call on anything near S0
The number that goes in front of leadership
Deciding what to escalate and when
An agent that guesses severity is a triage assistant. An agent whose guesses you accept blindly will mislabel an S0 as an S2 and bury it, for example by downgrading a data-loss report because the user was polite about it. You own the output the agent drafts, and that human-in-the-loop judgment is the bar the interview grades.
An agent will happily draft a repro or check that asserts nothing and passes green, or logs the failure instead of failing the run. A green check that proves nothing is worse than none. Give the agent the golden state, meaning the input and the expected output, read the code it generates, and run a validator step that executes the check and confirms a real failure surfaces before you trust it.