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title: _the human sandwich_
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  _the human sandwich_ — a working pattern in which a person's judgment wraps
  around AI-executed work: the human sets up and directs the task at the start,
  the AI (here, **Codex**) does the bulk of the execution, and the human reviews
  and finishes the result at the end.
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# \_the human sandwich\_

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## Definition

_the human sandwich_ — a working pattern in which a person's judgment wraps around AI-executed work: the human sets up and directs the task at the start, the AI (here, **Codex**) does the bulk of the execution, and the human reviews and finishes the result at the end.

In the episode with **Natalia Quintero**, Every's Head of Consulting, the conversation explores how a non-technical operator works hands-on with **Codex** — treating it like an *AI employee* rather than a one-off prompt machine [^9a401cc8-2a6d-59fa-9f7a-9bd9c861dc19@0]. In that context, **_the human sandwich_** describes the pattern where a person's judgment sits around AI work: the human frames the task and sets direction at the start, the AI carries out the bulk of the building, and the human reviews, corrects, and integrates the result at the end. It connects directly to the episode's larger theme that **_loops_**, not single prompts, are reshaping knowledge work [^9a401cc8-2a6d-59fa-9f7a-9bd9c861dc19@0].- The human starts and ends the loop; the AI does the middle of the work.- It frames AI as an *AI employee* to be managed, not a tool to be prompted once.- It pairs naturally with the episode's focus on working in **_loops_**.