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The speaker believes many easy tasks in people’s workflows could be automated with a reusable general-purpose harness that users can direct without designing a specialized agent for each task.

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

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“people's general workflows where you probably could just vibe code up some specific harness to help you do like automate this thing some examples are like automating finding like research papers and stuff like that but usually people will design like a specialized agent to help them do this kind of thing or like like they'll vibe code a harness like and just run it or like their slack”
“slack bot or something but i almost think there's just like a standard form like just a harness that”
“you just plug in like you don't it doesn't need to be designed for finding papers or like you just kind of tell it find this for me and you like plug it into that setting what i'm getting at is that i think there's a lot of easy things that can be automated and”
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