Dev argues engineering is human-attention bottlenecked, and LLMs break that constraint
menhguin · x · 2026-10-16
The author observes that qualitative step-changes in large, complex technical projects have always required hiring more humans, and most highly effective engineering today is bottlenecked by human attention.
He argues the real step change comes when that bottleneck is removed — a core claim about how agent-era engineering paradigms will differ.
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