The speaker considers harness optimization attractive because the harness is understandable and easy to iterate on, without requiring large-scale model training to make progress.

“And then I do think the harness is nice to optimize for because it's just so easy, right? It's just like.”

“this language you look at it it makes sense you can iterate you don't have to train a massive model for like you know a lot of flops uh to get to the next state i'm”