FactoryAI CTO says the same code review task costs very differently across harnesses
LangChain · x · 2026-07-25
LangChain says a CTO at FactoryAI ran the numbers and found that the same code review task can cost wildly different amounts depending on the harness.
The post argues that a strong, model-agnostic harness can materially improve results across models, making the orchestration layer as important as the underlying model choice.
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