A Good Harness Can Save You Big Money
togethercompute · x · 2026-07-19
This repost highlights a very specific conclusion: good harness (orchestration/shell) engineering is incredibly valuable.\n\nThe text notes that intelligent harness design can achieve:\n- 30%–60% cost reduction\n- 30%–50% reduction in per-task wall-clock time\n\nThe chart in the attached image also demonstrates that applying the same orchestration layer across different models significantly reduces both per-task cost and latency, proving that the gains primarily stem from orchestration layer design rather than the specific model itself. The referenced paper is The Harness Effect: How Orchestration Design Sets the Token Economics of Enterprise Agentic AI.
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