Reflections on AI Agent Harness Evolution and Architecture Choices

As model capabilities improve, AI agent harnesses are becoming thinner. The community reflects that over-engineering limits model potential, and the future lies in internalizing the agent loop. However, task-specific harnesses remain valuable in production. Multi-agent architectures trade off reliability for parallelism rather than upgrading capability.

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