Jacques Thibs: AI's 1.5-year capability jump came mostly from unhobbling
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-11-13
Jacques Thibs argues that a major AI capability shift over the past 1.5 years came from systems around models, not the models themselves: companies like Anthropic built extensive loops supplying the right context at the right time and connecting tools, enabling a level of "unhobbling" that didn't meaningfully exist before. He suggests watching how much of this is a one-time jump versus compounding gains with smarter models, and suspects Anthropic leveraged it to great effect.
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