The public conversation often looks for a single frontier number. Products experience progress differently: a workflow gets cheaper, faster, or dependable enough to ship.
Multiple frontiers
Capability, cost, latency, reliability, and accessibility each shape adoption. A small improvement in one can unlock a large change in practice.
Watch the bottlenecks
The next useful breakthrough may be in data quality, evaluation, or tooling rather than model scale. Progress follows the constraint that is currently holding a system back.
