4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker believes current harness design underuses language models and expects serious gains from creative, strongly opinionated harness designs.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“we will see beyond just like i'm going to design a new coding harness that uses a special form of compaction or something i think we can be a lot more creative here like there's there's so much we can do with these language models that i think we are just not doing and i'm like very excited about this because i think like i think we can get serious gains from very very opinionated and good harness design”
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