--- title: "The AI Productivity Curve — Nicolás Parola" description: "The same applies to AI. AI is not the bottleneck Anthropic, Google, OpenAI — they have the infrastructure. The tokens are there. AI can work 24/7 without fatig…" canonical: "https://publica.now/creators/nicolas-parola/works/the-ai-productivity-curve" --- Literary # The AI Productivity Curve [ ![Nicolás Parola](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/creators/01kqfpkfhven48znf3q64s20ec/avatar.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260902%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260902T141443Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=ae902c7c77e15c26836b6010dac210f43b85cd722a3c35d1c6a3ec317814575a) Nicolás Parola ](https://publica.now/creators/nicolas-parola) Follow Hey, I'm Nico — a product leader, a vibecoder, and an Argentine who traded the Río de la Plata for the Mediterranean. I've spent 14+ years building and scaling digital products — from a B2B/B2C publi... Free [ Sign in to read now ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fnicolas-parola%2Fworks%2Fthe-ai-productivity-curve) Share Link copied Format epub Published Apr 04, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![The AI Productivity Curve](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqfpkfhven48znf3q64s20ec/the-ai-productivity-curve-cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260902%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260902T141443Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=3e8d5c8cc78cdc1fce59638cd23be76408b36e7f8c998393f3bede9496497273) ## About this work The same applies to AI. AI is not the bottleneck Anthropic, Google, OpenAI — they have the infrastructure. The tokens are there. AI can work 24/7 without fatigue, without diminishing returns on its en… Sample ## Take a look inside The same applies to AI. AI is not the bottleneck Anthropic, Google, OpenAI — they have the infrastructure. The tokens are there. AI can work 24/7 without fatigue, without diminishing returns on its end. The scarce resource is you. Your cognitive capacity is the ceiling. The trap Opening a second Claude Code terminal feels like a superpower. A third agent running in parallel — incredible. The momentum, the output, the dopamine — all real. But at some point, quietly, the curve bends down. You lose track of what each agent is doing. You approve a diff you don’t fully understand. You stare at four terminals wondering which one had the thing you were looking for. And then you crash. Not dramatically — just completely. The real skill I used to think the new skill of the AI era was orchestration: knowing how to coordinate agents, tools, models. That’s part of it. But the harder skill is knowing when to stop. There’s no natural signal. The output keeps coming, the agents keep running — long after you’ve passed your own peak. The limit isn’t technical. It’s human. The bottleneck didn’t disappear. It just moved. [ Sign in to read now ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fnicolas-parola%2Fworks%2Fthe-ai-productivity-curve) [ #ai ](/search?query=ai) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. [Sign in to leave a review](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fnicolas-parola%2Fworks%2Fthe-ai-productivity-curve) No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. 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