SpaceX engineer's viral talk asks: is the agent harness dead as models get smarter?
swyx · x · 2026-10-21
swyx highlights Jediah Katz's (SpaceX) AI Engineer New York talk "Inside Grok Bot: is the agent harness dead?", which hit 100K views in 24 hours — an early breakout candidate. Core argument: as models like Grok get smarter, Cursor managed to remove prompts and guardrails, yet Grok Bot is adding them back. The talk is now live on the AI Engineer YouTube channel.
Related event: Ex-Cursor Engineer: Smarter Models Make Agent Harnesses More Necessary(2 posts)→
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