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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  Frontier AI coding agents can now fix complex compiler bugs like LTO issues in about fifteen minutes.

  coding agents

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  Strap a frontier AI into a good coding harness, show it what's broken, give it all the sources (source.tar), and ~15 minutes later I have a patch.

  What's been going on in w64devkit the past yearnullprogram.com

Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Having the very best AI model and harness does not result in better or faster execution and can slow teams down

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  having the very best AI model and harness doesn’t result in better/faster execution - in fact it slows you

  @GergelyOrosz on Xx.com

Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.

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  ai-cli

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  Every agent harness can now use Jev npm install -g ai-cli → ask yes/no questions → choose between options → score against your criteria https://t.co/dpgmcdCj8F

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Software is mostly dead; new Silicon Valley startups are building harness or hardware instead.

  startups

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  In the most early adopting tech pioneering place that's Silicon Valley new startups aren't even building software anymore And it's debatable if anyone will actually need a custom harness or it won't just be generically offered by the AI frontier companies So software is mostly dead and hardware it is

  levels.io

Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Codex lets you use any model and has an open-source harness, while Claude Code does not and is closed source

  open sourceAnthropicOpenAI

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  Codex lets you use any model you want (not just OpenAI) and harness is open source - Claude Code doesn’t and is closed source Given this is the two leading AI labs, notable difference in approaches

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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.

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  Making AI agent hardware and software free to consumers dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and brings AI's benefits to ordinary people who otherwise wouldn't adopt it.

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  what Meta has assembled is free (to consumers) hardware and software that dramatically reduces the barrier to entry for ordinary people looking to harness the power of agents, making the AI upside a lot more accessible to the masses who don't want to buy a Mac Mini.

  2026.37: Duo Threatsstratechery.com

AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  Computer-use capability will be a major focus of LLM and coding-agent development in the coming months and years.

  LLMs

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  I expect the upcoming months (or years) also to be an era of computer use refinement on both the LLM and the agent harness layer.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Omarchy

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  Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Capabilities that used to require sophisticated external harnesses are increasingly being built into the model itself.

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  so harness capabilities are increasingly shifting into the model itself.

  @fchollet on Xx.com

Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  GPT-6 Astra

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  GPT-6 Astra represents a step-function change in model capability for interactive reasoning problems. It scores 66% on ARC-AGI-3 using our standard harness, and nearly 100% with a continuous conversation harness and custom compaction, at a cost of roughly $360 per game.

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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Battery storage is becoming the defining transformative energy technology of the second half of the 2020s, as solar and wind were of the first half.

  solarenergy

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  Batteries are the transformative technology for the second half of this decade, as sun and wind were for the first half

  Fun with numbersbillmckibben.substack.com

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Your dependency's business model is your business model, so building a harness around one lab's model is a commercial risk and not a technical choice.

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  So maybe write this one down. Your dependencies business model is your business model.

  Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"youtube.com

Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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  Evals are not the durable asset people think they are: one survives about one to three model generations before it saturates and has to be thrown away.

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  I think evals, they outlive the harness a little bit, but not by that much. Like an eval might live for maybe one, two, three model generations, but nowadays the you know, we're on the exponential. The model is improving so quickly, very often we just saturate the eval, and then we have to throw it away, and we have to come up with a new eval.

  Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com

Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

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  An open weights model from 2025 with a pentest harness could already escape a sandbox and hack most networks; the surprise says more about the sandbox than the model.

  OpenAI

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  I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you assume OpenAI has sounder sandboxes.

  @tqbf on Xx.com

Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  What made Claude Code better than every CLI coding agent before it was reinforcement learning on the model and the harness together, so the model got good at that harness’s specific tools.

  Anthropic

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  But it's basically this idea that like the only thing that made claude code good was reinforcement learning. And the dimension along which it got good was like we made a model. We trained the model and the harness together. And so the model got really good at calling the specific tools in that harness.

  Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com

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  Harness engineering is raising the floor: optimising the environment a coding agent runs in so that the results of every single turn are as good as possible.

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  Well, harness engineering just is like how do I raise the floor so that every single turn of this thing, the results are as good as possible.

  Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com

Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

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  A defining trait of charismatic 'bad boy' figures is that they lie.

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  After all, one of the main reasons bad boys are bad is that they lie.

  joshbarro.com

Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  The current AI-driven intelligence explosion will require new social structures to harness its power without damaging human values.

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  I believe the same is true of the current intelligence explosion being driven by AI. We are in desperate need of new social structures that allow us to harness its power, without damaging or destroying human values in the process.

  Introducing the Alumni Mentor Corpsfortelabs.com

Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.

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  Harness improvements help deploy a model better, but the model's underlying intelligence remains the core driver of capability.

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  harness improvement enables better deployment of the model but intelligence is still the core.

  Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io

AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  When an AI lab builds both a model and a coding harness, the model is optimized for that lab's own harness first.

  LLMs

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  if an LLM developer also develops a coding harness, it is somewhat safe to assume that their model is optimized for their own harness first

  Using Local Coding Agentsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com

Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.

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  pi

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  For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server

  vickiboykis.com

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  LM Studio

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  For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  Slop is becoming the defining cultural metaphor of the late 2020s.

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  "Slop" is fast becoming the central metaphor for the cultural output of the late twenty-twenties.

  RIP Millennial lifestyle brandskylechayka.substack.com

Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  The winning move in coding agents was inverted: take share with a merely good-enough harness first, then go back and make the harness smart.

  coding agents

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  And our harness wasn't very good for like the first like five months of open code. But it was good enough. It was good enough that most people couldn't really tell a difference. And once we won enough share, then we went back and like tried to make our harness like good and smart and optimize and all those things. But uh it was inverted from what everybody else was doing. Everybody else was being like you have to build the smartest harness and that's how you win.

  Building OpenCode with Dax Raadyoutube.com

Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

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  Rust's defining experience is that once the code compiles it works — not literally true, but true often enough that people keep saying it.

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  I think part of what I liked about Rust is this feeling that as you write the code when it compiles it works. I mean this has to be in quotes right because obviously it's possible that there are bugs but this is something a lot of people say about Rust and there's a reason people say it even though it's not necessarily literally true.

  Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Cannon

  Their words

  The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

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  Delegating a task to an AI agent only works if the output can be verified, which requires defining success criteria first.

  Their words

  You can't delegate what you can't verify, so this requires first defining success criteria and metrics.

  How to Work and Compound with AIeugeneyan.com

Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  Lasting satisfaction comes from studying how others play, then defining and fully playing one's own game rather than someone else's.

  Their words

  The only lasting path to satisfaction, happiness, skin in the game, maximizing learning, is to really study everybody's game, define your own, and then play it to the best of your ability.

  What you can do in a decadeswyx.io

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Privacy's Defender

  Their words

  This book is a beautiful capstone to a brilliant career that defined the fight for cyber rights, and a deep, accessible dive into the defining tech and human rights battles of this century.

  pluralistic.net

Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

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  Wyatt harness boots

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  I've worn my Wyatt harness boots for years and they're still pristine.

  jxnl.co

Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

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  can lead to imposter phenomenon. In this book, a leading psychologist looks at the science behind our inner voice and new research into how to harness it and improve your physical and mental health.

  bringthedonuts.com

Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  Capital Evolution: The New American Economy

  Their words

  Seth and his co-author, Elizabeth MacBride, do an outstanding job of defining capitalism clearly and explaining how it evolved into today’s approach.

  feld.com