Interactive triangle showing trade-offs between human-in-the-loop oversight, substrate investment, and agent compute cost. Drag the point inside the triangle to see how the auditability of the resulting system changes.

HITL human oversight Substrate tools, env, context Agent cost tokens, time, $
Drag the point to weight each corner.
HITL 33%
Substrate 33%
Agent cost 33%
Auditability Mixed
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In reality the relationship between substrate investment and HITL cost isn't linear — it's step-function-ish.