May 30, 2026

My post “Add a Verify Button” has a problem. When Rohit requested hyperlocal news for every PIN code in Mumbai, we’d need a “verify” button on every Statoistics card - hundreds of PIN codes, every day. Verifying every output introduces new bottleneck: a person inspecting every unit. That’s 100% inspection - which you do when you don’t yet trust the process. Manufacturing solved this a century ago. At Western Electric’s Hawthorne Works (famous for the Hawthorne Effect), quality control meant inspecting finished products and pulling the defective ones. Walter Shewhart sent his boss a one-page memo; about a third of it was a control chart. ...

Rohit Saran looked at the Statoistics cards my AI agents are generating for The Times of India, and asked about a small button under each one. In the list of Statoistics that you had put, I saw there’s a button called ‘Verify.’ What was that meant to be or will do in future? That verify button explains the claim, mentions the sources, and shows how to check the claim. One card said “9 in 10 Indians want a family doctor and barely 1 in 35 has one”. The button breaks that down: ...