The Hook: the bottleneck moved, and most teams missed it

The fastest way to ship with AI right now is not model shopping, it's workflow engineering.

That sounds backwards in a week where everyone is benchmarking the latest model drops and arguing which assistant "feels smarter." But if you've shipped anything non-trivial with LLMs lately, you already know the pain isn't usually "the model wrote bad code." The pain is:

agent loops that die halfway through a task

approval prompts nobody can reason about