It Doesn't Matter How Good Your Models Are If Your Connectors Don't Work
shensi · x · 2026-09-04
A resonant observation circulating among practitioners: the real bottleneck in AI agents often isn't model quality but whether your connectors — integrations with external tools and data sources — actually work.
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