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Published by Addy Osmani (T1.5 source). The original is at https://addyosmani.com/blog/orchestration-tax/.

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Addy Osmani argues that running more AI agents does not multiply a developer's effective output because human cognitive bandwidth is a serial resource. Every judgment call and code merge still passes through one person, creating an 'orchestration tax' reduced only by deliberately designing one's own attention like a concurrent system.

Names a specific failure mode of scaling agent usage and offers a reusable mental model — attention as a concurrent system to be architected — that readers can apply to workflow design.

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