The speaker thinks a harness was not very necessary for OpenAI's approach.

“like a harness is not that necessary for what they did the way that i would put this is that i think a model like a gpc6 astra type thing is technically smart enough conditioned on the right information to come up with a proof for these very very difficult problems now how you get to that”

“information is a giant question mark and in their case it probably came down to like a very long search over like many of these sub or many of these like agents in the swarm and maybe also like researchers can i'm actually not sure about this part but putting in like their kind of intuition as to like what you should explore and things like this and ultimately like this produced some information that some agent was able to take”

“the take to finish the proof and so in that sense like i think was the harness that important no and i i think what this is pointing at is like these specific details of a harness do not really matter and i think that's also what that uh what the harness tactics paper is pointing at which is that like beyond the user's feeling of the harness”