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Agents can eat friction.

2026-07-06 · Bits and Bobs 7/6/26
  • Agents can eat friction.
    • Friction requires patience to overcome.
    • LLMs have infinite patience.[e]

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← Now that LLMs give qualitative nuance at quantitative scale, the goal is to maximize how much the system can see.A number of businesses have load-bearing high-friction user processes. →

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