All You Need Is Attention (Human, That Is)

The paper that started all of this is called “Attention Is All You Need.” That’s the 2017 Google paper that gave us the transformer, which gave us GPT, which gave us Claude Code, which gave us the glorious mess I’m about to confess to. And the joke that keeps rattling around in my head is this: the thing that makes the models work is attention. And the thing I’m fresh out of is attention. Mine. The human kind.