"The Evolution of the Agent Harness": models absorb the scaffold, leaving an attention-interface

daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-08-22

AI engineer Dan McAteer wrote a Latent Space post arguing that models keep absorbing the agent harness into their weights; engineers delete what got absorbed, and what remains becomes a harness for human attention — the "attention-interface" — rather than for the model.

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