I tried 5 AI tools last month. The 2 I kept had one thing in common.

Last month I tried 5 AI based tools for different tasks. I kept 2 and dropped 3. The 2 I kept had the same pattern: they gave me suggestions but I made the final call. The AI didn't try to do everything, it did the boring part and I did the deciding part. The 3 I dropped either did too much automatically and got it wrong with no way to correct or did too little to be worth opening.

My read is that "human in the loop" isn't a feature it's a requirement. People say they want full automation but in practice they want control.

So for those who use AI tools daily: do you actually prefer full automation or do you want the tool to stop at "suggestion" and leave the decision to you? And the harder question: if a tool automated 100% of the task correctly every time, would you trust it or would you still check?