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Published by One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) (T1 source). The original is at https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-ai-jaggedness-bottlenecks.

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Ethan Mollick revisits his 'jagged frontier' framework for AI capabilities, discussing where bottlenecks and salients appear, and uses it to explain why Google's 'Nano Banana Pro' (Gemini image generation model) marks a meaningful capability jump rather than a typical incremental release.

Mollick's jagged-frontier framing is a working mental model many readers already use; the post extends it with bottlenecks and salients, and grounds it in a current model release.

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