"Coordination overhang": AI agents as technology to close the group collaboration gap
anselm · x · 2026-09-04
timourxyz proposes "coordination overhang": the gap between what any group could achieve in collaboration versus what it actually achieves, since each person holds only a partial view of others' knowledge and contributions. He argues AI agents, as coordination technology, could meaningfully close that gap by surfacing the right questions, hidden knowledge and complementarities.
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