YC Demo Day: everyone is just building domain-specific harnesses
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-09-13
Observations from a recent YC Demo Day: apart from hardware projects, nearly every team is essentially building a domain-specific harness. What used to be mockingly called "GPT wrappers" is now a respectable category — domain-specific harnesses are becoming the dominant AI application paradigm.
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