The Real Bottleneck Is Not Agents. It Is Work Worth Giving to Them

A line I saw this week was a little too accurate: the problem right now is not that we do not have enough agents. The problem is that we do not have enough work to give them. The original post came from Zara Zhang: https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2046662237306421608 I laughed when I first read it, not because it was exaggerated, but because it felt uncomfortably close to the truth. To avoid hiding the sources behind linked anchor text only, here are the primary source URLs up front: ...

April 24, 2026 · 10 min · cuigh