Productivity and AI: it’s the tool, not the model

Every week, a new “SOTA” (State of the Art) model is announced, promising higher reasoning capabilities and (often) lower costs. We could be led to think that we are entering an era of infinite, frictionless productivity. But the reality is messier. While the models are getting smarter, the gap between “intelligence on tap” and “completing a task” is managed by our tools and right now, that…