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The Harness Is the Company: AI Scaffolding as the Real Moat

Original: The Harness Is the Company

A widely shared essay argues that in the era of AI agents, the harness—the scaffolding of tools, prompts, evaluation and workflow code wrapped around a model—is where a company's actual value sits, not the underlying model itself. As models become commoditised and interchangeable, the author contends the harness is the durable product, and effectively the company's true identity.

Why now: Debate is growing over whether model providers or application-layer companies capture the value of AI, and this piece makes a pointed case for the latter.

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• The Harness Is the Company · iacguy · 57

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