What Eugene Yan thinks about AI and jobs

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

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3 May 2026

Our readingAs AI agents take on bigger delegated tasks, the human bottleneck shifts to writing specs and reviewing output fast, hollowing out the middle of the work.

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Their wordsThe bottleneck has shifted from doing the work to writing clear specs and reviewing outputs fast enough to keep the pipeline moving-the middle is hollowing out.

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