A lawyer generates contracts in seconds. Reading for accuracy takes hours. A developer produces a thousand lines of code before lunch. Reviewing takes all afternoon. Creation became the fast part. Verification became the bottleneck.
Every AI workflow: prompting, processing, verifying. AI made the middle instant. The edges got slower.
The Attention Economy
The better AI gets at producing, the more time humans spend checking. Output scales exponentially. Human attention doesn't.
Business spend is migrating to the edges. Not to AI licenses—those are commoditizing. To prompt engineers who know what to ask. To verification specialists who know what to check. The middle is machine ground. The edges get the human budget.
We solved the wrong problem. We made production instant when the constraint was always attention.
The future belongs to those who can prompt precisely and verify quickly.
By automating the easy part we made the hard part harder.