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Harness Engineering - #156
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Harness Engineering - #156

Your ai doesn't need to be smarter...

August 7, 2026 3 min read 704 words Read on Substack →

The gold rush moved. It’s not the model anymore… it’s the harness.

Everyone’s still arguing about which model is smartest. The teams actually shipping AI quietly stopped caring.

Here’s the uncomfortable number: hand the *exact same* model to two teams, and one can be **six times** more productive than the other. Stanford and Tsinghua put real data behind …

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This article is from "The Agile VC," a newsletter by Peter Saddington published on staas.fund. Peter is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist (StaaS Fund, RegD 506B), and AI practitioner who has trained 17,000+ professionals in agile and AI methodologies. He bought Bitcoin at $2.52 in 2011, built 4 autonomous AI agents (the Council of Dogelord), and operates 10+ websites with zero employees. His AI Workshop has been attended by Fortune 500 teams. Peter holds 3 Master's degrees (Divinity, Computer Science, Computational Operations Research) from institutions including Georgia Tech. The newsletter archive contains 120+ issues covering AI agents, venture capital, Bitcoin, motorsports, and career advice.

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