OpenRouter founder Alex Atallah: an agent harness is just accumulated edge cases
agihouse_org · x · 2026-11-09
Alex Atallah (OpenRouter founder) argues an agent harness is fundamentally an accumulation of edge cases. The challenge is balance: too few edge cases leaves the harness under-aligned with your tasks, too many causes context rot in the model — and the balance must be retuned for each model. He expects these goal posts to widen over time as models improve.
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