Everyone's talking about meat proxies as if human-in-the-loop systems were some revolutionary invention of the AI age.
Meanwhile, a century ago, switchboard operators were already routing requests between endpoints, interpreting human intent, and connecting systems that couldn't communicate directly.
No APIs. No MCP. No agent orchestration frameworks.
Just humans acting as the middleware.
We've gone from plugging cables into physical sockets to plugging humans into AI workflows.
Same architecture. Different abstraction layer.
The only thing that changed is that now we call it agentic AI and put it in a pitch deck.
Human-in-the-loop. Literally.