Harnesses

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the Y Combinator Startup Podcast Big Technology

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Kedrosky: Recent AI gains stem from orchestration harnesses, not model breakthroughs
“So much of the improvement we've seen in the last 18 months has really been about the imposition of harnesses, effective nannies, sitting on top of bratty kids, and not about the actual structural improvements in the models themselves, and that's a sort of a h…”
Paul Kedrosky Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 52:44 Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
Chollet: Human-Engineered Agent Harnesses Prove AI Is Far From AGI
“I mean, to me, the fact that you need humans to engineer these harnesses is also a sign that we're short of AGI today, because if we had AGI, you know, AGI would just make its own harness. It would not need to be told how to solve a problem.”
François Chollet Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 25:24 François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator

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