“An Army of Claudes, With Every One Asking for My Attention”: Anthropic Calls Human Attention the Bottleneck - AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #119
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| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 119 · 20 STORIES |
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“An Army of Claudes, With Every One Asking for My Attention”: Anthropic Calls Human Attention the Bottleneck
Anthropic released a study of its own workforce, and one finding stands out: 80% of the elapsed time in Claude sessions came from agents waiting on a human’s input. The report concludes that the acceleration makes human attention the bottleneck for agent output. |
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