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Human approval is a feature, not a failure
Teams often treat a human step as an admission the automation is incomplete. In the places where it matters most, it is the reason the automation is allowed to exist.
Nodexa team5 min read
The refund workflow is the canonical example. Below a threshold, issue it automatically. Above it, pause and ask a person. That single branch is what makes the entire workflow deployable, because it bounds the worst case.
Approval steps should hold state, not block a thread
A held run should be durable: survive a deploy, expire sensibly, and tell the approver exactly what they are agreeing to. Anything less and people approve blindly, which is worse than no approval at all.