Keynotes are good at showing what a model can say. Production is good at showing what an organisation can absorb. Between those two moments sits most of the work that never makes a launch post: access control, logging, escalation paths, vendor lock-in, and the quiet decision to keep a human in the loop because nobody trusts the receipt trail yet.
Operators do not need another list of model names. They need reporting that treats failure as information: where the agent stalled, which policy blocked it, what the cost curve looked like after week two, and whether the evaluation set still matches the traffic.
That is the beat The Frontier intends to cover — when it is real. This piece is a labeled sample so the desks have a shape. It is not an issue of the journal.
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