The Reading Bottleneck: How AI Distillation Rescues Overwhelmed Developers

As technical systems grow increasingly complex, developers face an impossible situation: they're encouraged to read comprehensive documentation but lack the cognitive bandwidth to do so. This piece reframes the problem from personal failing to systemic bottleneck—finite attention is the real constraint, not effort. The solution lies in AI-assisted distillation, using LLMs to condense technical knowledge into digestible insights, allowing developers to focus their limited attention on what actually matters.