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The Capability Overhang
Rob's core diagnosis of the current moment.
How it works
- 1Frontier models are already more capable than nearly any business use they're put to.
- 2The bottleneck is education and implementation, not model quality.
- 3The big labs and Microsoft are now standing up heavily funded consulting arms precisely because they see this.
- 4The gap between what AI can do and what founders do with it is where fortunes get made and lost.
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