Beaker preview: tuning an older model's harness beats latest SOTA by ~10 points
VictorSanh · x · 2026-11-04
Victor Sanh launches Beaker in preview with the thesis 'stop waiting for the next model': teams at vertical AI app companies often assume they need the newest release for a capability step-change, but tuning an agent harness around a model 9 months older beat the latest model by almost 10 points—the harness is the biggest lever right now.
Beaker works as an autonomous AI engineer: it runs experiments on your AI agents, finds failures, tests fixes, and compounds the improvements that work.
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