Humans use tools. The bottleneck is capacity.

A short note after reading Anthropic's "When AI builds itself" (Anthropic Institute, May 2026), which asks whether AI is heading toward recursive self-improvement — systems that design their own successors.

Recursive self-improvement will move forward, because humans use tools

My read on people, from my own experience: humans are a tool-using animal. Given a tool that helps them do their work, they will use it — and the better the tool, the more they will use it. That's not a prediction about AI; it's an observation about us.

Recursive self-improvement is, at bottom, a way of making the current tool more efficient. So it sits squarely on the path humans have always walked. I don't think the direction is in question. The pace is.

The bottleneck is real — and inside a company, it's capacity

The essay is right that bottlenecks exist; speeding up one part of a process moves the constraint somewhere else. But when I look at a business, I don't see the bottleneck as a domain AI can't touch. Marketing, sales, operations, data analysis, design, development — I can't name one of these where AI can't do the work.

What actually limits a company is capacity: how much it can absorb, review, deploy, and take responsibility for at once. The ideas and the output now outrun the organization's ability to put them to use. That's the constraint I expect to keep seeing — not a missing capability, but a ceiling on throughput.