Agent Harnesses

topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 6 episodes

Latent Space No Priors the Startup Ideas Podcast the MAD Podcast 20VC

8 statements about Agent Harnesses, every show

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Atallah: More agent harnesses will emerge so developers own user relationships
“In fact, I think we'll see more harnesses come up in the future because it's a way of building a user experience on top of models. It's a way for developers who are not model labs to own a user relationship, and that is just going to be incredibly valuable for…”
Alex Atallah Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 47:58 OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dubois: General AI agent harnesses designed to endure will not work
“If you try to have, like, a general harness to, that will, like, sustain over time I don't think that will work.”
Yann Dubois May 21, 2026 ▶ 1:10:25 OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
MAD What-if
Dubois: Current models with optimized harnesses would feel like AGI
“If we froze the models that we have right now, and you really worked on the harness, and, like, maybe, like, we also spend more time, like, training with, like, a great harness I think people would really feel the AGI in every single domain, or could already f…”
Yann Dubois May 21, 2026 ▶ 1:10:51 OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
Lopopolo: Native code guardrails outlast external model scaffolds as AI advances
“If we were building an entire separate Ross scaffold around Codex to restrict its output, that I think would be like additional harness that would be prone to being scrapped. But yeah, if instead we can build all the guardrails in a way that's just native to t…”
Ryan Lopopolo Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 1:13:07 Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
Gaskill: Popular AI Agent Platforms Are Merely Agent Harnesses
“And all of the popular AI agent platforms on the market that you'd be familiar with are just agent harnesses. They're just applications where this loop is facilitated.”
Remy Gaskill Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 6:28 Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
Gaskill: Core agent concepts translate seamlessly across all agent harnesses
“Once you know how to drive, you can kind of jump in any car, whether it's like an old Toyota, a Range Rover, and you inherently sort of know what to do. And that just comes down to understanding all these key concepts that we're going to go through today. And …”
Remy Gaskill Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 10:20 Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Harrison Chase: Most current agent harnesses feature built-in sub-agents and skills
“Most harnesses today have sub agents built in. They have skills built in.”
Harrison Chase Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 9:16 Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levie: Agent Scaffolding Will 10x AI Model Capabilities in 2026
“It's definitely gonna be the year of age and harness and seeing how do you start to get, you know, an order of magnitude improvement on the model's capabilities by having all the right scaffolding around the model.”
Aaron Levie Dec 19, 2025 ▶ 34:28 No Priors Ep. 144 | The 2026 AI Forecast with Sarah & Elad

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