Persistent agents eat 45% of one team's AI spend; Perplexity's harness beats Claude and OpenAI
petrusenko_max · x · 2026-11-12
A heavy user reports that 45% of their AI spend now goes to persistent agents — agents whose harness holds state for days. Their verdict: Claude Tags sucks, OpenAI's Slack agent is even worse, and they primarily use Perplexity Computer, whose harness they rate best. A follow-up raises the key open question: what happens to days-long agent state when the underlying model changes mid-task?
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