Comment by cavoirom

5 days ago

I feel the AI provider doesn't get the points, every harness they created will lock-in with their model (why din't they?), this prevent the adoption because people scare vendor lock-in. They may develop these harness within a provider neutral company (owned by them), the harness may success when combining with competitor models, they still gain benefits.

What’s the actual lock-in, in practice? Seems like the switching cost is minimal, compared to the old days of Windows vs Mac where half your stuff wouldn’t run on the other.

  • Because the harness is in its early form. The more advanced harness in the current time look like Amp:

    - Cloud workspace (Orb) and agents.

    - Multiple agents with different LLMs and system prompts for different roles (Main, Librarian, Oracle...).

    - A universal agent (Puck) for managing the whole workspaces.

    - Web app or native app to work from any devices.

    - Support subcriptions and API keys.