Bernat Sampera
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Humans Are Not the Bottleneck

AI Engineering

Humans Are Not the Bottleneck

Saying that humans are the bottleneck in AI workflows is a bad take. It's the same argument as the chimp typing Shakespeare given infinite time. Technically possible, practically meaningless.

AI is a tool. You can orchestrate it to do more things in one go, but the overall will is still human. The AI can execute properly if the task is well enough defined. That's the whole point: the goal is to define the will, to shape the intent clearly enough that a machine can carry it out.

That's not a bottleneck. That's the job.

Calling humans the bottleneck confuses execution speed with direction. A faster executor doesn't remove the need for someone deciding what to execute and why. If anything, the better AI gets at execution, the more the value shifts to the person defining the problem.