human engineering

noun

1
: management of humans and their affairs especially in industry
2

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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 This move effectively replaced some of the deep learning process with human engineering input based on what Singh, the human designer, thought would work best for training the neural network to recognize different human body poses. Jeremy Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 14 June 2018

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First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of human engineering was in 1911

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“Human engineering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/human%20engineering. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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human engineering

noun
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