Quotes and excerpts from things I’m reading. The words belong to the credited authors.
Human Attention Is the Bottleneck
This acceleration makes human attention the bottleneck for agent output. Even among non-technical employees, reading all the output of their Claude agents would take half their work week. In response, employees turn to “meta-work,” of building visibility tools and monitoring agent pipelines. — Nathan Wilmers, Regina Catipon, Maxim Massenkoff, and Peter McCrory, How employment is changing at Anthropic, October 16, 2026.