The Coordination Tax: Why Personal Agents Fragment Teams

Model capability keeps compounding, but realized impact trails it. Individuals are faster with agents on bounded tasks now. The gains leak out at the handoffs, where the next person, or the next

Model capability keeps compounding, but realized impact trails it. Individuals are faster with agents on bounded tasks now. The gains leak out at the handoffs, where the next person, or the next person's agent, has to rebuild the context the last person already had. Every transfer of work starts with a re-brief: what are we doing, why, what is decided, what happens next. Call it the coordination tax: the share of every productivity gain that gets spent re-establishing what somebody else already