Forty Tabs Open

YPO Technology Network AI Brief · Oct 21, 2026 · 8m

For a while this year, Stephen was the busiest he has ever been and was getting almost nothing done. He explains how AI agents that took one to three minutes per task left him with forty tabs open in his head, why a new report from inside Anthropic says he was not alone, and the simple thing that fixed it. Then a lightning round on attention, money, people and power.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

Forty tabs open. Short waits on AI agents turned into five, ten, fifteen open tasks, forgotten work and a tracking process that became a second job managing the first one. Stephen calls it…