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A harness is a program that encodes strong choices about how a language model should be adapted to a problem.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“like you just say solve code or like solve my query over this code base no so we rely on a harness to help you do these kinds of things and i think what what is interesting is like a harness”
“is a very, very opinionated program over how you want a language model to be form fit over a problem.”Play from 32:07Report a misattribution
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