Natural-language workflow builders produce a plausible draft in seconds, and the draft looks right until an exception hits it. AgentGate, Anthropic's Agent SDK, and EU AI Act Article 14 all land in the same place: a human gate at design time and another at run time.
A Mississippi federal judge split 5,000 dollars in fees between a client and his lawyer over AI-fabricated declaration content, and Damien Charlotin's database has tracked 1,420 such decisions. When AI gets it wrong, courts look for the human who should have checked. Process design decides who that is.
Stanford found leading legal AI tools still invent law in more than one query out of six, even after vendors rebuilt them on real case databases. The firms getting value from these tools are not the ones with the best model. They are the ones who put a verification step between the AI and anything that gets filed.