Ex-OpenAI engineer: orchestration is a crutch; the model will eat the harness
juberti · x · 2026-10-14
Endorsing the view that "the model eats the harness, aka bitter lesson," juberti (former OpenAI Realtime API lead) argues orchestration is just a crutch to help models scale up — and developers shouldn't get attached to it, since model improvements will progressively absorb the glue code and agent frameworks built around them.
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