‘An army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention’: Anthropic calls human attention the bottleneck in the botsitting world to come

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Anthropic just released a study of its own workforce that offers one of the earliest looks at what an AI-dominated company of the future might look like—and spoiler alert, it includes babysitting a whole lot of bots.

AI agents are now moving so fast that 80% of the elapsed time in Claude sessions was due to the agents waiting on a human’s input, Anthropic’s report found. “This acceleration makes human attention the bottleneck for agent output,” the report read.