AI Agents Made Me Faster. Then Attention Became the Bottleneck.

I was not trying to coin a term or build a framework. I was trying to stop being the scheduler for the agents I was working with. I started with prompts. The prompts worked. That was the problem. In those early sessions, working with agents felt like the obvious next unlock. I could ask for help with code, product thinking, strategy, documentation, UI review, research, testing, and planning. The work moved faster. A lot faster. Problems that used to take days could be explored in an afternoon.…