Model × Scaffolding × Context

· Bits and Bobs 2/23/2026
  • Model × Scaffolding × Context
    • Success in AI = quality of model * quality of prompting and how you scaffold it * quality of context and what it has access to.
    • The first is increasingly a commodity. The frontier shifts week to week, but everyone is pulling from roughly the same shelf of options.
    • The leverage is in the other two.
    • Scaffolding is how the system thinks with the model, not how the model thinks on its own.
    • Context is what the system can reliably know and do, not what it can guess.