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Prompting is a commoditized layer now. The real leverage moved to context engineering: assembling the right information into the window at the right time.
At scale, single-processor checkout is a point of failure and a margin leak. How payment orchestration routes across processors to lift authorization rates.
Best-of-breed unbundling gave data teams a sprawl of tools. The integration tax now exceeds the benefit, and the pendulum is swinging back.
Event-driven architecture is sold as the default for scale. The real wins, the distributed-systems tax, and how to tell when async messaging is worth it.
The BaaS pitch sells embedded banking as free margin. The economics are thinner and the profit pools somewhere founders rarely look. Here is where.
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