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Insight
Awais: AI design slop is a contract gap, not a model capability deficit
“Feels like you can fix 90% of a design slop, which is not a capability gap. It's more like a contract gap in what your harness is telling an LLM to do versus what your user is saying.”
Ahmad Awais Jun 6, 2026 ▶ 22:24 ⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
Opinion
Yasser Elsaid: 95% of AI customer service limitations stem from harness architecture
“I would say like, 95% of the limitation is not from the model. It's from the harness. So like, it's my job to fix, but I think the intelligence is there and like, I think has been there for a while, especially for like, if you're only thinking about customer s…”
Yasser Elsaid May 2, 2026 ▶ 14:56 ⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
Insight
Lopopolo: Collapsing product problems into code allows Codex harnesses to solve them
“If you can figure out how to collapse a product that you're trying to build a user journey that you're trying to solve into code, it's pretty natural to use the codex harness to solve that problem for you.”
Ryan Lopopolo Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 22:59 Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
Insight
Noam Brown: The Ideal AI Agent Harness Is No Harness
“The ideal harness is no harness. Right. I think harnesses are like a crutch that eventually we're going to be able to move beyond.”
Noam Brown Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 14:03 Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pocock: Inversion of control to developers will become critical in AI tooling
“And I think that coming up for the next couple of, maybe the next few months, let's say, I'm not a clairvoyant, that the inversion of control is going to be really important, where you put more control in the hands of the developer and less in the harness.”
Matt Pocock May 7, 2026 ▶ 18:07 Senior Dev: This "Grill Me" Prompt Is Going Viral Among Top Engineers
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