The through-line
The industry is fragmenting along two axes: technical (specialized models vs. framework-agnostic harnesses) and political (safety advocates vs. acceleration advocates). For builders, this means evaluating whether to couple tightly with vendor stacks or abstract through composable layers—and navigating messaging that conflates safety theater with actual deployment constraints.
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