A chat demands your attention.

· Bits and Bobs 8/10/26
  • A chat demands your attention.
    • When you send a chat message, it asserts to the receiver: "this is important enough for you to look at it right now."
    • The receiver doesn't have any process to automatically balance across all of those things vying for their attention.
    • Agents enter into that same communication channel, saying "Hey, look at me!"
    • That means you top out at managing like five agents or so.
      • They suck out all of your attention and make you an AI Vampire.
    • A background task could proactively do things without keeping you in the loop.
    • But for that to work, it would have to be structurally aligned with your intentions.
      • Incapable of intentionally or unintentionally doing things that go against your goals.
    • If you could solve this problem then instead of five agents, you could have dozens or even hundreds, autonomously acting on your behalf.
      • The only limit would be how much compute you wanted to pump in.
    • This would unleash the full power of AI for us to accomplish meaningful things.
    • None of this is possible without having a system that is structurally aligned with your intentions.