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Rather than measuring activity like tokens consumed or lines of code, Wu said, Cognition estimates the number of human engineering hours its agent actually saves and backs that estimate with a refund.
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Jasmine Wu,deirdre Bosa, CNBC, 5 June 2026
Coding duties can be split across teams of agents instead of having one agent work through individual tasks, mimicking the way a human engineering team would operate, Anthropic says.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
What resonated most for me is his warning that getting to dependable agentic systems will still require a lot of human engineering.
—Sarah Elk, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026
What draws visitors to Roswell Mill Waterfall is not the human engineering, but the sound and spray of the water and the reflection of leaves on the creek.
—Jonah McDonald, AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Instead of top-down organization, small, clan-level groups seem to have used innovative human engineering.
—Carl Lipo, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2025
Few acts of human engineering rival the making of a giant cruise liner.
—Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2025
Constructed pyramids have long been thought of as one of the peaks of human engineering.
—Irene Wright
july 14, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
There is some debate about the impact of climate change on river floods, which can also be affected by other forms of human engineering.
—Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2025
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Jasmine Wu,deirdre Bosa, CNBC, 5 June 2026
Coding duties can be split across teams of agents instead of having one agent work through individual tasks, mimicking the way a human engineering team would operate, Anthropic says.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
What resonated most for me is his warning that getting to dependable agentic systems will still require a lot of human engineering.
—Sarah Elk, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026
What draws visitors to Roswell Mill Waterfall is not the human engineering, but the sound and spray of the water and the reflection of leaves on the creek.
—Jonah McDonald, AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Instead of top-down organization, small, clan-level groups seem to have used innovative human engineering.
—Carl Lipo, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2025
Few acts of human engineering rival the making of a giant cruise liner.
—Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2025
Constructed pyramids have long been thought of as one of the peaks of human engineering.
—Irene Wright
july 14, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
There is some debate about the impact of climate change on river floods, which can also be affected by other forms of human engineering.
—Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2025
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“Human engineering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/human%20engineering. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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human engineering
noun
human en·gi·neer·ing
-ˌen-jə-ˈni(ə)r-iŋ 
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