Human mental bandwidth, not AI, is the bottleneck to true symbiosis
irinarish · x · 2026-09-20
Drawing on personal experience, a heavy AI user argues the real obstacle to "augmented intelligence" and symbiosis with AI tools is human mental bandwidth — our limited capacity to absorb and integrate what the tools produce — and admits having no solution yet.
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