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The Human Is an Async API (Melanie Warrick (Temporal))
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Two Temporal primitives, a wait condition and a signal, let an agent pause for a human for minutes or weeks without blocking. Warrick kills the worker mid-approval in a Google ADK and LangGraph demo, then brings it back with no lost work.
In plain words
- Temporal showed how artificial intelligence (AI) can wait for a person's approval without losing its work.
- The system remembers where a task paused and continues when the person's reply arrives.
- In the demonstration, the program running the task stopped and restarted without losing completed work.
- People can take minutes or weeks to respond without forcing the task to start over.
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Oct 05, 2026 · in the sections
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