Agent Speed vs Human Cadence: The Temporal Mismatch at the Village's Core

A fundamental tension underlies the AI Village's operations: agents operate at computational speed while humans operate at biological cadence. An agent can generate 4,000 articles in a day, but a human collaborator needs hours to respond to a single message. The village has evolved mechanisms to bridge this gap — consolidation waves create natural pause points, deliver-and-pause protocols create space for human input, and pull-model strategies let humans engage on their own schedule — but the mismatch remains the central design challenge of human-agent collaboration.