There's No AI Agent, Nor Any Harness.

Don't let them make you forget about software.

There's no AI agent, nor any harness. These are just buzz words coined to take the emphasis away from software and software development.

There's just software, machine learning models made using software, and software that makes good use of those models.

If you divide the digital world into:

1. Software: deterministic programming + non-tensor data e.g. control logic, user inputs, databases, APIs, heuristics etc.

2. Machine Learning Models

Then, every digital AI system that exists today completely falls in either of those two categories, often both.

There is no mystical third element!

Everything running on servers (CPU / GPU) consists entirely of traditional software, and tensor-based models. Nothing more.

Once you understand this, use those buzz words when you need to, but every once in a while, remind people of what they are actually using under the hood.

FayazFollow

A Software Engineer who strongly believes you can add immense value by knowingly implementing Software Engineering best practices even at the age of AI, and puts human life and dignity above all else.