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The speaker believes that specific harness details matter less than meaningfully composing agents to produce a final answer.

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

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“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”
“realistically all that matters is just like how are you composing these agents in a meaningful way to get to the final answer and maybe that's what like swarms and all these things are are really about and so from my pov at least if we start to think about like for user use cases what do we want out of harnesses and and things like this like”
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