The Verification Bottleneck: Why AI's Real Cost Is Human Attention
AI scales execution to near-zero cost. But verifying that output stays biologically bounded. The bottleneck was never intelligence. It's human verification bandwidth.
Tagged: productivity
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AI Doesn't Reduce Work - It Intensifies It
between 0.7% and 94%
CIO.com described it well
METR Study: AI Tools and Developer Speed
Some Simple Economics of AGI (arXiv)
Some Simple Economics of AGI
Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey - AI Section
The AI Productivity Paradox Research Report
The New Asymmetry: When Generation Outpaces Verification
Transitioning to the Verification Economy
Shrinking the Verification Gap: Practical Patterns for AI-Assisted Development
If AI scales execution and verification is the bottleneck, the winning move is to make verification cheaper. Here are the patterns that actually work.