Only 11 of 340 AI outputs shipped, and review is now the bottleneck

TickenChikka2 · reddit · 2026-07-25

The author tracked a month of AI-generated drafts, images, scripts, and snippets and found that only 11 out of roughly 340 outputs were actually shipped, sent, or shown to a client. The post argues that this is not necessarily waste: when generation becomes cheap, the bottleneck shifts to human review and selection.

Key points:

Before AI, the author made only a couple of options because generating more was expensive.
Now the hard part is not prompting, but reviewing enough outputs without burning out.
The real constraint is “review capacity,” not model quality.
The next helpful tool may be something that helps discard faster, or reduces the number of things a human needs to inspect.

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Only 11 of 340 AI outputs shipped, and review is now the bottleneck

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