The OG founders.

"Naveen Rao, the Gen AI VP of Databricks, phrased it quite well:

all closed AI model providers will stop selling APIs in the next 2-3 years. Only open models will be available via APIs (…) Closed model providers are trying to build non-commodity capabilities and they need great UIs to deliver those. It's not just a model anymore, but an app with a UI for a purpose."

~ https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/model-is-the-product A. Doria

> new Amp Free (10$) access is also closed up since of last night

Not going to happen.

I find that it works much better for music on music.youtube.com

Like when Instagram / digital photography, that is not what you will get but you will see a lot of revealing body parts.

2026 is the year of the harness.

Already made a harness for Claude to make R/W plans, not write once like they are usually implemented. They can modify themselves as they work through the task at hand. Also relying on a collection of patterns for writing coding task plans which evolves by reflection. Everything is designed so I could run Claude in yolo-mode in a sandbox for long stretches of time.

Link?

2027 is the year of the "maybe indeterminism isn't as valueable as we thought"

As a VC in 2026 I'm going to be asking every company "but what's your harness strategy?"

Given that you're likely in San Francisco, make sure you say "AI Harness".

It’s all about user-specific bindings.

But will harness build desktop Linux for us?

Only if you put bells on it and sing Jingle Bells while it em dashes through the snow.

My harness is improving my Linux desktop...

Happily deleted it, just as I would for most % of the online rot I am a part of.

Care to write more about this?

I think that a curl wrapper could serve as a universal integration with arbitrary services (as long as they have a public API), saving you a lot of setup complexity and context space. Authentication is the hard part; ideally, you shouldn't even need an OAuth intermediary. Which I think is doable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876636. It's still a bit of an experiment, though.

Architects still need to learn to draw manually quite well to pass exams and stuff.

I have to rewatch what, been a decade.

From 2002. It's crazy how happy I was to have 360p mpeg rips back then. I'm gonna have to re-pirate it tonight.

Whatever we do now to "steer" the model to do the job, my 5 cents, it will all get sucked into the model itself; skate where the puck is going as they say, and relentlessly focus on user experience and the overall product, that's how you get something like Granola.