#approval-workflow

Practitioner reports from a February 2026 Hacker News thread keep converging on the same finding: agent swarms collapse under coordination overhead, while the two-agent pattern survives - a writer paired with a reviewer that approves work or kicks it back. It works because the verdict has exactly one owner.

A Mississippi federal judge split 5,000 dollars in fees between a client and his lawyer over AI-fabricated declaration content, and Damien Charlotin's database has tracked 1,420 such decisions. When AI gets it wrong, courts look for the human who should have checked. Process design decides who that is.