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Even after many harness improvements are eventually internalized into the core model, the need to specify goals and context does not disappear.
Weng argues that no matter how much harness functionality gets absorbed into future base models, external goal- and context-specification will remain necessary, a point AINews calls a notable concession from a neolab cofounder. ✦ AI generated
Lilian Weng · Latent Space · 2026-07-08 · original ↗
Even when many harness improvement[s] get eventually internalized into core model, the need to specify goals and context will not disappear.
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- ·Many harness improvements will eventually be internalized into core models
- ·Even so, need to specify goals and context persists
- ·Weng: this need 'will not disappear'
- ·A neolab cofounder concedes harness ≠ full substitute for models
- ·External goal/context specification remains a durable requirement
- ·AINews flags this as a notable admission
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