Edward Hughes: hand-built AI harnesses have a ~3-month shelf life
Machine Learning Street Talk · youtube · 2026-11-11
Machine Learning Street Talk released a short clip where AI-scientist founder Edward Hughes explains why his team deliberately avoids building harnesses for their AI scientist work: his co-founder Louis Kirsch analyzed harness-based AI scientist systems and found that about three months after a harness is built, the base model can do the same thing on its own — every hand-built harness has a shelf life. Full conversation: "What Building an AI Scientist Actually Requires Beyond Intelligence — Edward Hughes".
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