The more you use AI agents, the more you're the bottleneck: humans process just 10 bits/s
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-11-12
Kehang Zhu notes a counterintuitive pattern: the more he uses AI agents, the more work they hand back to him for review — making the human the bottleneck of the whole loop.
He cites a Neuron paper estimating human information processing at just 10 bits/s, and suggests the ultimate bottleneck for AI agents — and for fully realizing RSI (recursive self-improvement) — may be us, not the models.
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