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Building an Advanced Agentic Harness | Data For Science

That Basic Harness loop is correct, but naive. A lone pilot in a well-built jet might win a dogfight, but nobody runs an air campaign that way. Real operations add mission planners who decide what sorties to fly before anyone takes off, squadrons that fly independent sorties in parallel, fuel budgets and bingo calls that…

The Safest Job from AI may be Writing

I am increasingly convinced LLMs will not threaten decent writers anytime soon. My prediction rests on the three observations below. Source: The Safest Job from AI may be Writing

The Harness Is the Thing — Scott Fryxell

You can and should build bespoke applications and you don’t have to sweat onboarding experienced engineers; if they know their stack backwards and forwards they’ll quickly know how to contribute to yours. But most of all, I have learned that the harness is the thing; the fulcrum from which my expectations meet the LLM’s capabilities.…