---
id: "quote-trillion-dollar-sand"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["00:05:26"]
tags: ["irony", "bottlenecks"]
related: ["concept-human-affordance-bottleneck"]
speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
sources: ["s20-50x-faster"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s20-50x-faster"
originDay: 20
---
# We Made the Sand Think

## Quote

> The part we spent a trillion dollars on, that's not the part that's sucking up the time. Isn't that ironic? We spent a trillion dollars on these agents, we want them to think collectively, we got them to do it. We made the sand think. Isn't that great? Now we're bottlenecking them on tool calls that were designed for humans.

— [[entity-nate-b-jones]] @ 00:05:26

## Significance

Captures the core irony of the current AI landscape: massive investments in model intelligence are being squandered by forcing those models to interact with legacy, human-speed interfaces.

## Related

- [[concept-human-affordance-bottleneck]]
- [[claim-speed-bottleneck-limit]]
- [[contrarian-model-speed-is-irrelevant]]