Capability overhang

The gap between a frontier model's latent abilities and what current prompts, tools, and harnesses actually elicit, so real-world performance trails the model's true ceiling until better scaffolding unlocks it.

grounded in: Latest-trends theme 'Frontier-model migration wins — teams switching production agents to newer models for concrete speed and cost gains', i.e. realizing latent gains by upgrading; reinforced by doctr