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Harnesses are simple (kind of? Some certainly aren't, but I'd agree that they can be simple) but they deliver a ton of value. They have a significant ROI.

I agree that good models have more value because a harness can't magically make a bad model good, but there's a lot that would be inordinately difficult without a proper harness.

Keeping models on rails is still important, if not essential. Great models might behave similarly in the same harness, but I suppose the value prop is that they wouldn't behave as well on the same task without a good harness.



Sure... A good harness can be built in 1 day tho. A good model is 1000x more sophisticated


Okay, fair. I was thinking in the context of actually using the tools, but yes, in the bigger picture the model is worth far more.




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