Output Problem: Why AI Has Made Reading the New Superpower (opens in new tab)

In 2017, a group of researchers at Google published a paper called "Attention Is All You Need." It introduced the Transformer architecture, kicked off the era of large language models (LLMs), and changed everything we know about software, work, and productivity. Nine years later, I find the title almost funny. The technology born from "attention" now demands something we have neglected for years: knowing how to read. I spend most of my workday reading. Not books, not articles. AI output. I op...