As fast as the technology industry is formalizing the term Human-In-The-Loop, the global automation lobby is seeking to push the term into obsolescence in as many aspects of AI as possible.
This March saw French generative development specialist Mistral AI launch Leanstral, an open source code agent designed to pop the cork on the “human review bottleneck” in software engineering. Before we ask how effective this tool might be and question its possible unknowns and future trajectory, let’s remind ourselves how it works.

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