Decision Intelligence

Decision Intelligence

Attention Is All You Have

In the agentic era, leadership means designing what your machines notice, optimize, and repeat

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Cassie Kozyrkov
May 05, 2026
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Now that the machines do the doing, what’s left?

In 2017, Google published the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture, the basis of every modern LLM (the “T” in ChatGPT). Its math is dry, but the title is accidental poetry: Attention Is All You Need.

I doubt the researchers knew they were writing a job description. Yours.

The defining character…

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