rakyll: open-source harness engineering is just free distribution — models eat it fast
rakyll · x · 2026-10-18
rakyll (Google engineer) on harness engineering: in this domain, open source essentially means free distribution. There's almost no way to defend such software unless it contributes to model quality — and even then, the model absorbs it so quickly that you eventually delete all of it. A concise take on how short the moat is for tooling built around models.
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