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TheSequence Opinion #904: The Age of Research Is Overrated. AI Engineering Is Winning
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Fusion42 · 30 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The current phase of AI development is being mislabeled as a return to research. In reality, significant performance gains are coming from complex, industrial-scale engineering applied to existing model architectures—such as data processing, reinforcement learning, and agent orchestration—rather than fundamental architectural breakthroughs.
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Your competitive moat in AI is no longer the underlying model architecture. The race is now won by the industrial-scale engineering you build around it: data processing, reinforcement learning, and agent orchestration.
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