---
id: "quote-humans-bottleneck"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["00:05:10"]
tags: ["productivity", "ai-agents"]
related: ["claim-humans-as-bottleneck"]
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
sources: ["s35-compounding-gap"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s35-compounding-gap"
originDay: 35
---
# Humans will become the bottleneck

## Quote

> "In that world where you're burning millions of tokens in the background, we humans will become the bottleneck."

— [[entity-nate-b-jones]] (00:05:10)

### Context
Delivered while describing the workflow shift that occurs when [[concept-long-running-agents]] become standard. Compute is no longer scarce; human attention and judgment are.

### Anchored claim
This quote anchors [[claim-humans-as-bottleneck]] — the central operational consequence of long-running agents.