Cognitive debt is the rate-limiting step

  • Cognitive debt is the rate-limiting step
    • AI lets you do more. But your brain still has to hold more.
    • As output scales, so does fragmentation. More threads. More agents. More parallel work. More surface area.
    • This is cognitive debt.
    • I don't think the 1-person billion dollar company will ever really exist for this reason – you need multiple people holding lots of parallel processes and you need to distribute that cognitive load.