No Auto-Commit, Ever: Human Gates in Claude Code Workflows
AI-assisted development tools are evolving rapidly toward full automation. Code generation, testing, deployment pipelines — every step in the development workflow has AI assistants promising to eliminate human bottlenecks. The logical endpoint appears to be fully autonomous development where AI systems generate, validate, and deploy code without human intervention.
This is a dangerous path. Through six months of intensive Claude Code collaboration, we learned that human approval gates aren't bottlenecks to eliminate — they're the essential quality control mechanism that distinguishes reliable systems from impressive demos.