Lightspeed Partner: Blindly stacking tokens is like frantically grinding APM in games, AI's real bottleneck lies in verification capabilities
Research data shows that AI Agent Token consumption is 4 times that of ordinary conversations, while multi-agent systems reach up to 15 times; meanwhile, a 2025 analysis on AI-assisted software development found that the time engineers spend reviewing and modifying AI-generated code (accounting for 9% of programming time) is more than twice the time spent waiting for AI to generate code (4%). The author cited an economics paper by researchers from MIT, the University of Washington, and UCLA, pointing out that "the bottleneck constraining growth is no longer intelligence itself, but human verification bandwidth."
