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{
"name": "Regret Log",
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"jsCode": "const rows = [];\nconst spec = [\n { category: 'Refund under 50 EUR', n: 420, overturned: 4, confidence: 0.71 },\n { category: 'Refund over 500 EUR', n: 38, overturned: 21, confidence: 0.74 },\n { category: 'Route ticket to a team', n: 1900, overturned: 22, confidence: 0.66 },\n { category: 'Reply to an angry customer', n: 260, overturned: 148, confidence: 0.81 },\n { category: 'Close duplicate ticket', n: 640, overturned: 9, confidence: 0.69 }\n];\nspec.forEach(function (s) {\n rows.push({ category: s.category, seen: s.n, overturned: s.overturned, avg_confidence: s.confidence });\n});\nreturn [{ json: { window: 'last 90 days', decisions: rows, threshold_today: 0.95 } }];"
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"jsCode": "const d = $input.first().json;\nconst scored = d.decisions.map(function (c) {\n const regret = c.overturned / c.seen;\n let verdict = 'CALIBRATED';\n let action = 'Leave the gate where it is.';\n if (regret < 0.02) {\n verdict = 'THEATRE';\n action = 'The human changed nothing in ' + Math.round((1 - regret) * 100) + '% of cases. This gate is not review, it is a queue. Drop the threshold and let it through.';\n } else if (regret > 0.4) {\n verdict = 'SHOULD NOT BE AUTOMATED';\n action = 'The human rewrote ' + Math.round(regret * 100) + '% of these. The model is not doing this job. Stop asking it to.';\n }\n return {\n category: c.category, seen: c.seen, overturned: c.overturned,\n regret_rate: Number(regret.toFixed(3)), verdict: verdict, action: action,\n suggested_threshold: verdict === 'THEATRE' ? 0.6 : (verdict === 'SHOULD NOT BE AUTOMATED' ? 1.01 : 0.85),\n escalations_removed_per_week: verdict === 'THEATRE' ? Math.round((c.seen - c.overturned) / 13) : 0\n };\n});\nconst theatre = scored.filter(function (s) { return s.verdict === 'THEATRE'; });\nconst stop = scored.filter(function (s) { return s.verdict === 'SHOULD NOT BE AUTOMATED'; });\nconst saved = scored.reduce(function (a, s) { return a + s.escalations_removed_per_week; }, 0);\nconst worst = scored.slice().sort(function (a, b) { return b.regret_rate - a.regret_rate; })[0];\nconst say = 'One global approval threshold of ' + d.threshold_today + ' is applied to five very different decisions. ' +\n theatre.length + ' of them are approval theatre - the human agreed with the model almost every time, so the gate only taught people to click Approve without reading. ' +\n stop.length + ' should never have been automated: \\\"' + (worst ? worst.category : 'n/a') + '\\\" was rewritten ' + (worst ? Math.round(worst.regret_rate * 100) : 0) + '% of the time. ' +\n 'Setting the threshold per category instead of globally removes about ' + saved + ' pointless escalations a week and puts the attention where it changes an outcome.';\nconst headline = theatre.length > 0 ? 'theatre' : (stop.length > 0 ? 'stop' : 'calibrated');\nreturn [{ json: { plain_english: say, headline: headline, per_category: scored, escalations_removed_per_week: saved } }];"
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"name": "LOWER THE GATE: Humans Are Rubber-Stamping",
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"content": "## Regret Log - the approval gate that grades itself\n\nHuman-in-the-loop is in the JD. Everyone builds it the same way: an approval node with one confidence threshold, forever.\n\nNobody measures the only number that matters - **how often did the human actually change anything?**\n\nIf the answer is 1%, that gate is not review. It is a queue that trained people to click Approve without reading, which is worse than no gate because it manufactures the *appearance* of oversight.",
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"content": "## Regret rate splits into three, not two\n\n- **< 2% overturned -> THEATRE.** The human adds nothing. Lower the threshold and give them their attention back.\n- **> 40% overturned -> SHOULD NOT BE AUTOMATED.** The model is not doing this job. No prompt fixes this.\n- **In between -> CALIBRATED.** The gate is working. Leave it alone.\n\nOne threshold across five different decisions is the bug. Regret rate is what lets you set five.",
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"parameters": {
"content": "## The compounding bit\n\nEvery override is a free, perfectly-labelled training example that a human already paid for.\n\nToday that signal is thrown away the moment the button is clicked. Capture it and human-in-the-loop stops being a fixed tax and starts being **the mechanism by which the system earns more autonomy.**",
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}
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