AI Bottleneck Lies in Engineering, Not Model Capability

A widely shared observation argues that despite rapid model improvements, surrounding engineering—context management, retrieval, tool calling, evaluation, monitoring—has lagged behind. The real bottleneck for agent performance is often unreliable connectors to external tools and data sources, not model capability.

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