Building a 'meta harness' to unlock lab subscription subsidies—and a market trading privacy for pricing
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-07
In a thread about AI coding tool economics, Josh Albrecht says he's building a 'meta harness' that must run the inner harness directly so users can access lab subscription subsidies. Seth Lazar is interested but can't leave Codex during his AGI gov fellowship, and argues the near-term goal is persuading labs to honor subscriptions inside third-party harnesses—while longer term, a more sophisticated market should trade different privacy protections and training permissions for different pricing tiers.
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