The AI bottleneck has shifted and most people haven't caught up yet
Summary
The bottleneck in AI has shifted from capability to trust and operational reliability, as tooling now abstracts manual orchestration into configuration. The author observes that building agents is easier than ever, but maintaining reliability and trust in production remains the harder challenge.
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