Anthropic proposes 'Harness' paradigm for enterprise agents
dair_ai · x · 2026-08-24
This paper argues that while frontier models lowered the cost of writing code, maintaining bespoke solutions remains expensive due to drift. It proposes the 'Harness' paradigm: using a single, unmodified coding agent backbone across all enterprise deployments. Findings suggest task-level harnesses outperform elaborate architectures on enterprise workloads.
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