The Technology Is Not the Bottleneck

When factories first electrified, they kept the old layout and just swapped the engine, and productivity barely moved for twenty years. Frontier AI labs are now making the same move in reverse: building forward-deployed engineering teams to redesign the workflows around their models, which is what consulting has sold for thirty years. History keeps teaching the same lesson: it is the organisation, not the technology, that is usually the bottleneck.