Models Keep Improving, but the Engineering Around Them Hasn't Kept Up
Meher_Nolan · reddit · 2026-09-04
A Reddit poster argues that while models have improved dramatically, the surrounding engineering—context management, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, monitoring, debugging—hasn't kept pace. Stronger models make systems better but don't eliminate the underlying reliability problems. The thread asks whether the bigger gap ahead lies in better models or in building far more reliable systems around them.
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