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The speaker says ORLMs and other harness abstractions differ substantially from most current harnesses, which generally look similar.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“with orlms and and with other harness abstractions it looks very different and this is where i think you really distinguish i mean it's it's in the same way that like i think with language model architecture choices a lot of architecture choices end up kind of looking the same when you like scale it out or like the differences end up being like somewhat minor in terms of i mean for a lab it's not minor but”
“you know maybe one model converges better than the other one like slightly but in general like if you were so for example pre-training scaling laws only hold because the architecture choices we have are somewhat stable right now but if you were to completely change the architecture pre-training scaling laws probably don't hold or like these kinds of this like power law is going to look very different and it's like the same thing with harnesses like i think all the harnesses we have right now for the most part”
“are roughly look the same,”
“but there are some exceptions to this, I think, that are coming out.”Play from 50:09Report a misattribution
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