Friction collapse

What breaks when AI agents make effort, attention, and patience nearly free for everyone at once?

Queues, application forms, opening hours, cancellation flows, and price differences between shops all lean on the fact that people get tired, busy, or bored. Some of that friction is waste; some of it quietly rations scarce things, signals sincere interest, or funds business models. This site takes the term from Khosla on friction collapse.

Separate removing pointless hassle from removing the rationing that friction did by accident. When it is gone, what replaces it: prices and auctions, lotteries, checks that a real person is asking, or rules about what agents may do? Follow Transitional pains for the wider path.