The Bottleneck in AI Was Never Intelligence (opens in new tab)

For two years the industry has organised itself around a single question: which model is smartest. Benchmarks, leaderboards, parameter counts, the weekly scramble over who now holds the top score. It is an absorbing competition, and it is about to stop telling us anything useful, because intelligence is becoming the cheap input. The scarce input, the one that actually decides who wins, is trust.That sounds like a soft claim. It is the most concrete thing in the system.Watch what happens to a pro