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Comment by dominotw

20 hours ago

That would be counter to AI company goals. They want harness to be dumb and models to be smart so they can sell models.

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satvikpendem  17 hours ago

Not really. Anthropic for example sells both the harness and the models as a unified kit via Claude Code, it is in their best interest to make sure both parts work as well as possible, via reinforcement learning of previous usage as well for new model performance increases.

  • dominotw  1 hour ago

    but harness are not a moat. They wouldnt have to subsidize their own harness massively if that was the case. Anyone can write a good harness .

    • satvikpendem  1 hour ago

      That's not true that anyone can write a good harness because the LLM providers have information like prompts that they can RL train off of that someone writing their own harness would not have. Therefore a good and proprietary harness is a moat.