Enterprise AI Bottleneck: Companies Rush to Use AI Before Building a Harness

jacob_posel · x · 2026-08-11

The article highlights that most enterprises suffer from extreme fragmentation in AI adoption. Employees work in silos with isolated prompts, local API keys, and disconnected knowledge bases across Slack, Drive, and Notion.

Instead of just chasing AI capabilities, the author argues companies must first build an AI Harness. Just as a physical harness attaches power to useful, steerable work, an AI harness provides models with unified context, tool access (like MCP servers), and constraints, effectively integrating AI into standardized enterprise workflows.

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